Nerd Fonts is a project that patches developer-targeted fonts with many glyphs (icons). It includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the appearance of source code.
Nerd Fonts includes additional glyphs from popular icon sets and patches them onto the original fonts. The result is a font that includes a broader range of glyphs and is more visually appealing for geeks.
Install Nerd Fonts on Ubuntu
To install the Nerd Fonts package, start by cloning the Nerd Fonts repo:
git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse git@github.com:ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
You can also use the HTTPS command:
git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts.git
If you do not wish to clone the repository, you can navigate to the releases page and download the source code zip.
Once you have the repo, navigate into the directory:
cd nerd-fonts
Use the provided installer script to install and configure the fonts on your system as:
./install.sh
Installing Specific Nerd Font
Sometimes, you may want to install only some of the fonts on your machine. In that a case, you can head to the Nerd Fonts releases page and download the font you desire.
For example, to install the Hack Nerd font, we can start by downloading the font zip:
wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.2.2/Hack.zip
Unzip the font:
unzip Hack.zip
Move the font files into the ~/.fonts or ~/.local/share/fonts directory
mv *.ttf ~/.fonts
mv *ttf ~/.local/share/fonts
You can now set the font for your editor, terminal, etc.
Sometimes youmay want the font files to be accessible for all users in the system. In such a case, you can move the font files to /usr/share/fonts/
sudo mv *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/
Finally, rebuild the font cache with the command:
fc-cache -fv
The following script should allow you to quickly setup the nerd fonts manually.
#!/bin/bash
declare -a fonts=(
Agave
AnonymousPro
Arimo
AurulentSansMono
BigBlueTerminal
BitstreamVeraSansMono
CascaidaCode
CodeNewRoman
Cousine
DaddyTimeMono
DejaVuSansMono
DroidSansMono
FantasqueSansMono
FiraCode
FiraMono
Go-Mono
Gohu
Hack
Hasklig
HeavyData
Hermit
iA-Writer
IBMPlexMono
Inconsolate
InconsolataGo
InconsolataLGC
Iosevka
JetBrainsMono
Lekton
LiberationMono
Lilex
Meslo
Monofur
Mononoki
Monoid
MPlus
NerdFontsSymbolsOnly
Noto
OpenDyslexic
Overpass
ProFont
ProggyClean
RobotoMono
ShareTechMono
Terminus
Tinos
Ubuntu
UbuntuMono
VictorMono
)
version='2.2.2'
fonts_dir="${HOME}/.local/share/fonts"
if [[ ! -d "$fonts_dir" ]]; then
mkdir -p "$fonts_dir"
fi
for font in "${fonts[@]}"; do
zip_file="${font}.zip"
download_url="https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v${version}/${zip_file}"
echo "Downloading $download_url"
wget "$download_url"
unzip "$zip_file" -d "$fonts_dir" -x "*.txt/*" -x "*.md/*"
rm "$zip_file"
done
find "$fonts_dir" -name '*Windows Compatible*' -delete
fc-cache -fv
Note: Remove the fonts you do not wish to install and the target version from the script above.
Conclusion
In this post, you learned how to install and configure the Nerd Fonts pack on Debian-based distributions or any Linux distribution. We hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
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