include font awesome 6

[Nachtpfoetchen]

Font awesome 6 was released - would be cool to update font awesome in nerdfonts. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/releases/tag/6.0.0

[Finii]

Related: #727 (kind of duplicate)

[Finii]

Related: #793

[Un1q32]

I want this too. I need a good cpu icon.

[0ptim]

I, too, am interested in fa6 support. I'm not exactly sure if it's already possible as described here. @phdpe Can you confirm?

[Finii]

At the moment font-patcher takes all Font Awesome 4.007 glyphs in the range F000 - F2E0 and patches them into the target font at the same codepoints. It has only very few 'gaps'.

To have the 'same' glyph set you need to

• patch Font Awesome 6 Brands-Regular-400.otf an then
• over-patch with Font Awesome 6 Free-Solid-900.otf

With these settings, both:

'Exact': True,
'SymStart': 0xF000, 'SymEnd': 0xF2E0,
'SrcStart': None, 'SrcEnd': None,
'ScaleGlyph': FONTA_SCALE_LIST, 'Attributes': SYM_ATTR_FONTA

@0ptim But that will not add all the additional symbols that FA now has. Would it be helpful to test this? Are you interested in any specific (renovated?) glyphs? Please give the codepoints.

FA4:

FA6 (combine):

Edit: Add images

[Finii]

FA6 has glyphs 'everywhere' but at least the 'core range' seems to be F000 - F8FF. That overlaps with codepoints used by Nerd Fonts for other fonts, ... That is the reason I suggested to keep the 'old FA4 range' in the comment above.

Nice overview about occupied codepoints https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/issues/365#issue-476391558

Edit: Add specifics where I suggested the old range Edit: Add link to issue 365

[Finii]

FA6 seems to ... ignore/not provide inverted icons?

And what happened with the talk-bubble circled blue?

[0ptim]

@Finii Thanks for your quick response. Please forgive my inexperience, when it comes to fonts.

My goal is to have some font like CaskaydiaCove-Regular or the like and patch it with Font Awesome 6 Brands-Regular-400 and Font Awesome 6 Pro-Solid-900.otf.

That is the reason I suggested to keep the 'old FA4 range' in the comment above

What are the implications of this? Does this mean that if I copy and paste glyphs from the FA-website, the glyphs won't display because they are not in the same range?

Are you interested in any specific (renovated?) glyphs? Please give the codepoints.

Sorry, but I don't understand your question here.

FA6 seems to ... ignore/not provide inverted icons?

I guess they just no longer provide the inverted versions because it can simply be achieved by setting the font color.

And what happened with the talk-bubble circled blue?

Good spot! I don't understand what happened there either.

[Finii]

Closed because moved to https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/discussions/1095

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[Finii]

Continued in

• #1550

[Finii]

Done.