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Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

32 mentions on Hacker News by 29 people: 4 stories, 28 comments · first 2016-03-12 · latest 2026-03-31

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  1. I go for the Iosevka Nerd Font Mono these days to get the nice icons everywhere. https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
    comment by joch · 2026-03-31 · in CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
  2. https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/issues/1959
    comment by otikik · 2025-12-15 · in Unscii
  3. …Also, Nerd Fonts added Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono in their v3.4.0 release. https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/tag/v3.4.0 With Nerd Fonts, I'd recommend downloading both and setting up a fallback system through fontconfi
    comment by maybebyte · 2025-07-22 · in Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code
  4. …as Nerd Font. I would like to briefly point out that Nerd Fonts provides a font patcher tool ( https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher ).
    comment by alexruf · 2023-11-19 · in Berkeley Mono Typeface
  5. …terminal but you have a complex prompt setup, install font forge and learn to use something like https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/font-pat... to patch in the extra characters. This can also solve your "I love this font…
    comment by giraffe_lady · 2023-07-19 · in JetBrains Mono Typeface
  6. …combinations of editors and terminal emulators that support ligatures. And many programmers fonts: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
    comment by alwillis · 2023-04-28 · in Show HN: ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable software
  7. You can patch them in yourself, it's pretty easy with just a CLI command: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2022-12-03 · in The Oldschool PC Font Pack (v2.2)
  8. …to Berkeley Mono, not sure if I’ll choose to go back. Bit of a contentious topic I suppose. [0]: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#option-8-patch-your-... [1]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/extras/progre...
    comment by oktwtf · 2022-11-15 · in Berkeley Mono v1.008 Released
  9. …//docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/cascadia-c... • CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font (as a fallback) - https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-... Terminal: • Hack Nerd Font - https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/…
    comment by glmeece · 2022-07-11 · in Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
  10. I use the "Sauce Code Pro" variant which includes a bunch of glyphs: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
    comment by lucky_cloud · 2022-07-11 · in Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
  11. Also available as a Nerd Font! https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
    comment by thanatos519 · 2022-02-11 · in IBM Plex Typeface (2018)
  12. …web in a few years since they are all gainfully employed. https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
    comment by Larrikin · 2022-01-21 · in JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers
  13. Same. I added nerd fonts and ligatures to the version I use. https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer
    comment by joobus · 2020-11-20 · in Dev Fonts
  14. …[1]. Just love how they display in emacs gui on a 4k display. [0] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ [1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
    comment by vz8 · 2020-07-23 · in Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
  15. …but I managed to patch it myself using their tool[1]. Seems to have worked without any issues. [1]: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#option-8-patch-your-...
    comment by ar-nelson · 2020-01-16 · in JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
  16. …of the font above, there is a patched version with powerline icons (and much more) built in: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-... which is very handy for emacs/vim modelines.
    comment by vz8 · 2020-01-15 · in JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
  17. In the mean time, this is a good alternative which I've used: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts But no, they won't add them, because God forbid they actually do something useful. It's obviously more important they add five different…
    comment by big_chungus · 2019-09-02 · in Why the Emoji Was Inevitable (2017)
  18. …[0] (particularly a pretty modern one like Iosevka [1]) and an advanced tmux configuration [2]. [0] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts [1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-... [2]…
    comment by stefco_ · 2019-08-01 · in iTerm2 3.3
  19. You're in luck; you can patch your own! https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher
    comment by bin0 · 2019-07-26 · in Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface
  20. …in the terminal? (And no, iTerm doesn't seem to support SVG in its inline image support [3].) [1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts [2] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/wiki/Codepoint-Confl... [3]…
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2019-05-21 · in Lsd: The next gen ls command
  21. …fonts like this (most of them support ligatures for Instance and are based on a lot of these fonts) https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/readme.m...
    comment by no_wizard · 2019-01-21 · in Programming Fonts – Test Drive
  22. …Font pack, as it adds all kinds of symbols that are great for augmenting text editors like Vim: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts Then your editor can look like this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/ryanoasis/vim-devicon...…
    comment by colordrops · 2019-01-21 · in Programming Fonts – Test Drive
  23. …looking for is WSLtty. You can't even get proper mouse support in Windows Console or Nerd Fonts: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts > Note: These both work fine with WSLtty
    comment by techntoke · 2018-10-06 · in Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows
  24. BTW, you'll need a Nerd Font for the icons to work: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
    comment by shcollider · 2018-06-12 · in Show HN: An infinite runner for the command line, because why not
  25. The best way to me is just clone https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts and look into the `pateched-fonts` folder, see what font you might like and do `./install.sh <font name>`. That's it.
    comment by jenhsun · 2018-04-25 · in Installing Fonts Using Homebrew
  26. …for custom icons so this is a huge plus for me. In my haste: forgot to link to the nerd fonts page! https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts For what it’s worth, I may be a tad OCD about how my desktop looks and feels :P
    comment by no_wizard · 2017-10-06 · in Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support
  27. …off topic but: I was trying to figure out how he got a github icon in there then found out it uses: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts Very cool. Definitely using this for some of my CLI tools.
    comment by throwaway2016a · 2017-07-07 · in Colorls – A Ruby script that beautifies the terminal's ls command
  28. …If you need other code fonts except using oh-my-git, you can take a look at nerd fonts https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
    comment by jenhsun · 2017-04-01 · in Input Mono – A Typeface for Code, from Font Bureau