all-the-icons.el VS nerd-fonts

Compare all-the-icons.el vs nerd-fonts and see what are their differences.

all-the-icons.el

A utility package to collect various Icon Fonts and propertize them within Emacs. (by domtronn)

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 (by ryanoasis)
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all-the-icons.el nerd-fonts
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4.3 9.7
19 days ago 6 days ago
Emacs Lisp CSS
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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all-the-icons.el

Posts with mentions or reviews of all-the-icons.el. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-30.
  • Some icons are shown and some aren't
    1 project | /r/emacs | 7 Dec 2023
    Thanks so much for your help, but I've already tried that :( I installed manually downloading it from https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el and used the fc-cache -f -v . For some reason the M-x all-the-icons-install-fonts not work for me, since it's not shown the all-the-icons-install-fonts after M-x and package-install
  • All-the-icons SVG beta
    1 project | /r/emacs | 17 Jun 2023
  • Package to display org headings spatially?
    7 projects | /r/orgmode | 30 Dec 2022
    Isn't a "pile" just an "unorganized map"? Really, if you think of it: a pile of papers on a desk, could as well sitt in a folder. That should bring you back to normal desktop paradigm. Now implementing headings as "folders" shouldn't be overly difficult. You could implement a "pile" of headings as just subheadings to top headings and also render those top headings as either: svg icons, check for example svg-library by /u/Nicolas-Rougier, or you could use font-icons like in font-awesome or all-the-icons, to replace top-headings with an image or a font-icon. You would probably have to write your own minor-mode but it shouldn't be very difficult. You will probably need to use invisible-text property to hide headings and replace them with icons (that is normally how org and outline modes "fold" and "expand" content in headings), but that should not be very difficult.
  • org-cc: Custom completions for Org (WIP)
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 22 Nov 2022
    In the org-mode buffer (upper part of pic): Iosevka Aile 15. In the minibuffer (lower part of pic): Iosevka 15. For the star icon: Font Awesome via all-the-icons.el.
  • all-the-icons Stopped Working on WSL2 with Doom Emacs
    1 project | /r/emacs | 21 Jul 2022
    I tried some of the troubleshooting steps on https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el but those instructions seem to address issues with individual icons. I can't see any icons.
  • My boss said use vs code it will give side tree and terminal. I did this for him.
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 11 Mar 2022
  • Cannot install all-the-icons package on Ubuntu 20.04 with Emacs 27.2
    1 project | /r/DoomEmacs | 12 Oct 2021
    I found what I believe is the fonts repo here but I'm not sure where to put the resources while this issue gets fixed. I see that it's a constant that reappears quite often.
  • Problem with installing all-the-icons package
    1 project | /r/emacs | 29 Aug 2021
    You can also install it manually: https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el
  • Elisp completion with icons using default company-mode frontend
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Apr 2021
    In the meantime, you can get the missing definitions using this config: https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el/issues/220#issuecomment-750989401
  • Good font for WSL/vcxsrv and Spacemacs?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 19 Feb 2021
    Works perfectly fine and looks good to me. Additionally, I also have the all-the-icons fonts to support doom-modeline.

nerd-fonts

Posts with mentions or reviews of nerd-fonts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
  • Turbinando sua Produtividade: Autocomplete e PersonalizaĆ§Ć£o no Terminal do Windows
    1 project | dev.to | 27 Apr 2024
  • jokermanBestFont
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 11 Dec 2023
    Use any nerd fonts
  • which Font do you use?
    16 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
    SourceCodePro: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/SourceCodePro
  • Neovim Nerd Font icons are available!
    1 project | /r/neovim | 23 Nov 2023
    Hot off the press: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/tag/v3.1.0
  • Berkeley Mono Typeface
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2023
    It's a bit expensive, and I can understand if someone can't or doesn't want to spend money on it. I would recommend to check out the free fonts 'JetBains Mono' & 'Hack' to these people.

    Some people have already mentioned here that Berkeley Mono is not available as Nerd Font. I would like to briefly point out that Nerd Fonts provides a font patcher tool (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher).

  • NvChad - multiple different client offset_encodings detected for buffer
    1 project | /r/neovim | 4 Nov 2023
    I'm using Neovim v0.9.1 on Ubuntu 23.04 with NvChad. I've also installed the JetBrainsMono font, as NvChad requires a Nerd Font, but nothing besides that and I haven't edited any settings or nvim files and I haven't installed any additional plugins.
  • Nerd Fonts
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2023
  • JetBrains Mono Typeface
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
    There are a lot of code fonts on HN today. Rather than make a new post I will talk about some of my favorite that are a little less common. None of these are free I don't think.

    Cartograph CF - The one I've been using for code for years. Very readable, almost "comic mono"-like choices of some of the lower case glyphs but in a good way. All the character is in the italic which you will either love or hate.

    Quadraat sans mono - The entire quadraat family is a collection of masterpieces imo, but are generally too distinctive to be appropriate for most public-facing work. But it's your computer so who cares. I use the mono sans one for my terminal. The lowercase f seems so out of place there but you learn to love it.

    Alegreya sans - Not a mono font, but it almost is so if you've ever flirted with proportional fonts for code this is a fun one to try. There is a lot of careful line width variation that gives a lot of the appearance and readability advantages of serifs but keeps most of the visual coherence of sans.

    I like all of these because they look feel more like normal fonts rather than code fonts. They have careful variation that adds character and improves readability for me. I've switched to an almost-no-color code theme that uses font weight instead, and the details like this become more important that way.

    And then only kind of related but if you want to use unusual fonts in your terminal but you have a complex prompt setup, install font forge and learn to use something like https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/font-pat... to patch in the extra characters. This can also solve your "I love this font but want a dotted zero" type problems as well. Small skill investment for a small return over a long period of time. You'll always be using fonts.

  • Compiler.nvim: Oficially released (beta)
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 19 Jun 2023
    It is FiraCode Nerd Font Mono:size=16. You can find it here. On arch linux you can just install the nerd-fonts and it's included there.
  • Need help: NvChad v2.0 doesn't display font icons correctly with CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 3 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing all-the-icons.el and nerd-fonts you can also consider the following projects:

emacs-gcc-wayland-devel-builder - Emacs with native compilation ("gcc") and Wayland support

FiraCode - Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

company-box - A company front-end with icons

Visual Studio Code - Public documentation for Visual Studio Code

company-mode - Modular in-buffer completion framework for Emacs

powerline - Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.

home-sweet-home - All my home configs, dotfiles, spacemacs etc

bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script. See also https://github.com/riobard/zsh-powerline

tide - Tide - TypeScript Interactive Development Environment for Emacs

Hack - A typeface designed for source code

org-cc - Custom completions for Emacs Org mode entries

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme