firacode-nfc-tweaked

Fira Code font tweaked and patched with Nerd Fonts Compete

Generate

Requirements

• Python 3
• fontforge

To generate the patched font, run:

./build.py

What build.py does

The build.py performs the following steps:

1. Download
   1. Nerd Fonts patched from Nerd Fonts releases ¹
   2. FiraCode from FiraCode releases ²
2. Patch Fira Code font variants with

   1. Tweaks to characters i and l. see sfd files in patches for details

   2. Swap glyphs within Fire Code font variants to become default instead of style variants

      From -> To
      a -> a.cv01
      g -> g.cv02
      r -> r.ss01
      3 -> three.cv14
      $ -> dollar.ss04
      % -> percent.cv18
      { -> braceleft.cv29
      } -> braceright.cv29
      | -> bar.cv30

   3. Nerd Fonts complete with --careful, --complete arguments

3. Copy patched font variants to dist directory

Font variants

Files in FiraCodeNerdFont.zip from latest release:

File Name	Font Name	Family Name	Name for Humans
FiraCodeNerdFont-Regular.ttf	FiraCodeNF-Regular	FiraCode Nerd Font	FiraCode Nerd Font Regular
FiraCodeNerdFont-Bold.ttf	FiraCodeNF-Bold	FiraCode Nerd Font	FiraCode Nerd Font Bold
FiraCodeNerdFont-Oblique.ttf	FiraCodeNF-Oblique	FiraCode Nerd Font	FiraCode Nerd Font Oblique
FiraCodeNerdFont-BoldOblique.ttf	FiraCodeNF-BoldOblique	FiraCode Nerd Font	FiraCode Nerd Font Bold Oblique

Why?

I like the Fira Code font, but

• I wanted to use the style variants as default instead of the default variants
• I hate all default i and l variants
• Nerd Font patched fonts
  • Don't have the complete set of glyphs
  • Are monospaced while many term emulators (including iterm2) support non-monospaced fonts
• I don't want to manually patch the font every time a new version of Fira Code or NerdFont is released

Support

I have not tested each character individually, but it should work. This project is for my personal use, I will try to fix any issues reported, but I cannot guarantee any timelines or if I fix it at all.

Changelog

See changelog.md

License

This repository is licensed under the MIT License; Some of the files committed and used during the build process in this repository follow the licenses from their source location, Which are updated in the LICENSE on the best effort basis.

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/v3.0.2/LICENSE ↩

2. https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/6.2/LICENSE ↩