Feature Request: Add Nerd Font Support

[humanbeeng]

Loving this font. Unfortunately I can't use this font in Neovim due to lack of Nerd Font. Please consider releasing a nerd font version. Thanks

[nferhat]

You can either:

• Use an Iosevka Nerd Font build (since Zed Mono is basically the same with some patches)
• Patch Zed Mono (See https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher)

[iamnbutler]

Feel free to add a PR with the patched version & instructions :)

[cabrinha]

Feel free to add a PR with the patched version & instructions :)

I'll give it a try: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/pull/1504

Through the above PR, I've got all the NerdFont ZedMono fonts built. If we should include them in this repo, let me know where to place them and I'll open a PR. @iamnbutler

[cabrinha]

@humanbeeng @iamnbutler let me know if I should open a PR in this repo for these fonts.

[iamnbutler]

Sure - go for it 😊

[cabrinha]

Sure - go for it 😊

Hey, I see that *.ttf files are ignored: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts/blob/main/.gitignore#L32

Should I remove this line in order to add the ttf fonts I've got built?

[danielzsh]

Any updates on this? No nerd fonts are making my terminal prompt unusable 😅

[cabrinha]

Any updates on this? No nerd fonts are making my terminal prompt unusable 😅

Just updated my PR here: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/pull/1504

Hoping they can merge it soon.

[karimbenbourenane]

Edit: the following post is now obsolete. there is an official brew cask font for zed mono nerd font and you should use that instead. I'm deleting my tap and formula from GitHub since the official font is now available

I created a tap and formula for this. You can install Zed Mono patched with Nerd Font using homebrew on macOS with the following:

brew tap karimbenbourenane/cask-fonts brew install font-zed-mono-nerd-font

These fonts have been patched with the --complete flag used by the docker method of font patching. And it includes all the font styles, so the font package is quite large when being installed by brew.

I hope this helps for those that use macOS and want to incorporate the Zed Mono font with the terminal.

Remember that Zed settings will need to be modified to include the following in the root configuration object to enable nerd fonts on the terminal: "terminal": { "font_family": "ZedMono Nerd Font" }

[danielzsh]

Just a quick note, this nerd font appears to be missing the up arrow indicator used to denote push:

[Finii]

Hoping they can merge it soon.

Ready to merge flag set. Nerd Font release will be the next days.

@karimbenbourenane

brew install font-zed-mono-nerd-font

Well, that will clash with the official Nerd Font cask :unamused: How shall we fix that?

[Finii]

Hmm, I can not find the cask (luckily)

Ah now I see it, it is @karimbenbourenane own tap.

brew tap karimbenbourenane/cask-fonts

Sorry I was too dumb. All good!

[karimbenbourenane]

Just a quick note, this nerd font appears to be missing the up arrow indicator used to denote push:

I'm not sure what that glyph is supposed to look like, can you give an example? Also when the official nerd font release comes out I can remove mine from my tap, I did this just as a temporary solution until then (I didn't realize it's coming out in just a few days).

[Finii]

I didn't realize it's coming out in just a few days

Even for me its always a surprise if it comes out 'on time' :smile: Given that I 'determine' the next release date half a year in advance and it is just a hobby.

The 'up' arrow is probably ↑

which is codepoint 2191 and not a Nerd Font patched glyph.

See some other examples in the images in this comment

Hmm, but it's there :thinking:

:woman_shrugging:

But there is another problem with patching

Done with Patch Sets, generating font...
Lookup subtable contains unused glyph POWER making the whole subtable invalid
Lookup subtable contains unused glyph POWER making the whole subtable invalid
Lookup subtable contains unused glyph POWER making the whole subtable invalid
Lookup subtable contains unused glyph POWER making the whole subtable invalid
Lookup subtable contains unused glyph HEAVY making the whole subtable invalid
Lookup subtable contains unused glyph POWER making the whole subtable invalid
Lookup subtable contains unused glyph POWER making the whole subtable invalid
Lookup subtable contains unused glyph POWER making the whole subtable invalid
Lookup subtable contains unused glyph POWER making the whole subtable invalid
Lookup subtable contains unused glyph HEAVY making the whole subtable invalid
   ZedMono Nerd Font
   \===> 'ZedMonoNerdFont-Regular.ttf'

See

• https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/issues/1579

Edit: Add link to Issue

[karimbenbourenane]

Hmm.. so is there anything I can actually do to get that glyph into my Zed Mono patched fonts? I used the --complete flag running the Nerd Font patcher in its docker container, so I'm unsure how I'd solve this problem of that glyph being absent. In @danielzsh 's screen capture, I see glyph 21e1 being used (the dotted up arrow), what does that normally denote if it's not the push glyph?

[Finii]

I guess Daniel needs to copy and paste (*) the glyph so that we can look up its codepoint. There is most likely nothing wrong with your patch (and if there is a problem its most likely someting Nerd Fonts needs to fix). I expect the missing glyph to be no Nerd Font patched in codepoint; several "Powerlines" and stuff depend on icons that are not part of the patchset. And/or Daniel uses a pre Nerd Fonts v3 codepoint that has been dropped.

(*) Copy and paste the glyph as text in a comment here

[Finii]

Baah... fontforge bites us again :-(

Not that I had not fixed several of these problems in ff already. This might take a while, I will report the progress only in the NF Issue (see above) to not spam zed users.

[danielzsh]

I'm not sure what that glyph is supposed to look like, can you give an example? Also when the official nerd font release comes out I can remove mine from my tap, I did this just as a temporary solution until then (I didn't realize it's coming out in just a few days).

Here's how it looks in JetBrains Mono (as you can see, it's now positioned much better within the brackets):

And the actual glyph itself is ⇡

[Finii]

That is 21E1

Which is in the font

Hmm, and there is a lookup table...

But that glyph is also ok:

Maybe that is because fontforge breaks the subtables. Will investigate later.

[Finii]

This looks fishy...

21E1 is uni21E1 will be replaced by uni21E1.NWID which will be replaced by uni21E1

---

This is the same in the unpatched Iosevka. Is that working?

[danielzsh]

The glyph renders oddly in unpatched Iosevka as well, it might just be an issue with Iosevka then?

[Finii]

Can you try this patch?

IosevkaNerdFont-Regular.ttf.zip

[danielzsh]

It's still rendering like this for me:

(btw, I noticed that character width is no longer as large as Zed Mono, is this intended?)

[Finii]

Thanks for testing! The character width is just what ordinary Iosevka has. The only thing I changed is removing the double-width arrows.

Hmm, the arrow seems to be the uni21E2.WWID :thinking: (which is 2 cells wide)

Ah, I removed the NWID (narrow character) to WWID (wide character) rule, but the WWID are already the standard variant.

We already had that at Nerd Fonts as Issue (without solution), let me think a bit.

[Finii]

Ok, this is all working as intended by Iosevka and/or the person who created the build plan for Zed-Mono.

The dashed-up-arrow is supposed two be two cells wide.

If you do not want that, change the Zed build plan like this:

--- a/private-build-plans.toml
+++ b/private-build-plans.toml
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@

 [buildPlans.zed-mono]
 family = "Zed Mono"
-spacing = "normal"
+spacing = "term"
 serifs = "sans"
 no-cv-ss = false

   [buildPlans.zed-mono.variants]
   inherits = "ss08"

When Zed updates to a newer upstream (i.e. Iosevka) the better build instruction could be enableNwidWwid = false but that is not available yet in Zed's Iosevka.

I believe this change should be applied to the Zed repo here, but then, I do not know what the authors intend. Maybe you want to raise an Issue. But then, that directly opposes this information about Zed Version 1.1.0 (from the CHANGELOG):

Version 1.1.0

Updated build plans – Mono and Sans now build with the same characters, weights and widths

The Sans should probably keep the 2 cell wide up-arrow, but for term it is problematic, but someone decided to have all width the same :woman_shrugging:

This is not my expertise, the information in this comment might or might not be correct.

[Finii]

Ah here, the documentation snipped, forgot that:

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/main/doc/custom-build.md#configuring-custom-build

[Finii]

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/tag/v3.2.0

[Finii]

@karimbenbourenane https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-fonts/blob/master/Casks/font-zed-mono-nerd-font.rb

[karimbenbourenane]

@Finii Thanks for getting this into homebrew, I'm now going to go delete my repo and tap. And I'm going to install the official formula after deleting my own. Thanks again and good work!

[cabrinha]

@humanbeeng I think this issue can be closed as completed, with NerdFonts officially supporting ZedMono.

[Finii]

Just wanted to add that Nerd Fonts does not include all weights, I think thin and extra-light has been omitted for being not useful for terminal use (maybe).

Edit: Correction:

Included is Regular italic oblique light* medium* bold* extrabold*

~~

#!/usr/bin/env bash

FONT_VERSION=1.2.0
TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)

set -e

curl -LOf "https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts/releases/download/${FONT_VERSION}/zed-mono-${FONT_VERSION}.zip" --output-dir "${TMP_DIR}"
unzip -d "${TMP_DIR}" "${TMP_DIR}/*.zip"

ls -alh "${TMP_DIR}"

typefaces=( "" "Extended" )

# weights=( regular italic oblique \
#     thin* extralight* light* medium* semibold* bold* extrabold* heavy* )

weights=( "" Regular italic oblique \
    light* medium* bold* extrabold* )

for face in "${typefaces[@]}"; do
    echo "Processing ${face} ..."
    dest=${face}
    if [ -z "${face}" ]; then
        dest=Normal
    fi
    mkdir -p "${dest}"
    for weight in "${weights[@]}"; do
        find "${TMP_DIR}" -iname "zed-mono-${face}${weight}.ttf" -exec mv "{}" "${dest}" \;
    done
done

[Afrowave]

Beautiful work. Thanks guys.👏🏾