search

ryanoasis / nerd-fonts

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
https://NerdFonts.com
Other
53.94k stars 3.63k forks source link

Issues in the name of Fira Code font #532

Closed felipecrs closed 1 year ago

felipecrs commented 3 years ago

The Fira Code font available in this repository has two issues in its name:

  1. The official Fira Code font is called Fira Code (with spaces), while the one here is called FiraCode.
  2. The font name of the Windows version is FiraCode NF while the font name of the other version is FiraCode Nerd Font. They were supposed to be equal, right?

image

dsbert commented 3 years ago

I ran into this issue tonight after setting up a new environment. I pulled in old configuration files which used Fira Code and didn't understand why my fonts were not working. I guess I had the original version of FiraCode installed in my old environment.

MikeVensel commented 3 years ago

This is very annoying when using VS Code on both Windows and Mac when using Fira Code.

pho3nixf1re commented 3 years ago

I will second this. Is there a way to make the Windows and MacOS built names the same? Or perhaps create an alias for the font in at least one of those platforms?

Finii commented 1 year ago

About the removed blank (Fira Code -> FiraCode):

This is deliberate. We 'fight' for every character in the name, because the name fields are limited to ridiculously short lengths. And it makes it a bit more obvious that this is a changed font.

If you set everything up for Fira Code also Fira Code Nerd Font will be a different font and not be accepted. So it does not make any difference if it is FiraCode Nerd Font or not.

Then we have FiraCode Nerd Font and FiraCode NF.

The first is the 'general' version while the later is the 'Windows Compatible' version.

They can not be somehow 'unified' or 'linked to each other', because the only difference between a 'Windows compatible' and a 'normal' font ARE the names. Names for Windows Compat needs to be even shorter, thus Nerd Font becomes NF (and also reason to drop the blank from Fira Code FiraCode).

I will second this. Is there a way to make the Windows and MacOS built names the same?

I really really want to drop 'Windows Compat', as that sounds like Windows needs something special. Which is not the case. Probably both will be unified somehow, but that needs some more research. See also

Finii commented 1 year ago

Ah, btw, on 'current' Windows system there is no reason to use the Windows Compatible fonts. Just use the normal fonts.

The Windows Compatible fonts (the label is misleading) are for example needed for MS Word 2011 on Mac (!!) or IE 8 (or something, I did not look up the actual revisions).

github-actions[bot] commented 1 year ago

This issue has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity (i.e. last half year) after it was closed. It helps our maintainers focus on the active issues. If you have found a problem that seems similar, please open a new issue, complete the issue template with all the details necessary to reproduce, and mention this issue as reference.