The Ubuntu Font Family are a set of matching new libre/open fonts in development during 2010--2011. And with further expansion work and bug fixing during 2015. The development is being funded by Canonical Ltd on behalf the wider Free Software community and the Ubuntu project. The technical font design work and implementation is being undertaken by Dalton Maag.
Both the final font Truetype/OpenType files and the design files used to produce the font family are distributed under an open licence and you are expressly encouraged to experiment, modify, share and improve.
Version: 0.80
- Pick your font family:
- If you are limited to monospaced fonts (because of your terminal, etc) then pick a font with
Nerd Font Mono(orNFM). - If you want to have bigger icons (usually around 1.5 normal letters wide) pick a font without
Monoi.e.Nerd Font(orNF). Most terminals support this, but ymmv. - If you work in a proportional context (GUI elements or edit a presentation etc) pick a font with
Nerd Font Propo(orNFP).
- If you are limited to monospaced fonts (because of your terminal, etc) then pick a font with
Ligatures are generally preserved in the patched fonts.
Nerd Fonts v2.0.0 had no ligatures in the Nerd Font Mono fonts, this has been dropped with v2.1.0.
If you have a ligature-aware terminal and don't want ligatures you can (usually) disable them in the terminal settings.
Once you narrow down your font choice of family (Droid Sans, Inconsolata, etc) and style (bold, italic, etc) you have 2 main choices:
- For a stable version download a font package from the release page
- Or download the development version from the folders here
- Patch your own variations with the various options provided by the font patcher (i.e. not include all symbols for smaller font size)
For more information see: The FAQ