The Nerd Fonts installer provides cross-platform scripts to easily install Nerd Fonts from the command line. It's available as a bash script or via npm/yarn/bun/pnpm/deno.

Features

✨ Cross-Platform Support

• Linux/macOS: Bash script (install.sh) with user-level font installation
• Windows (Cygwin/WSL): Bash script installs to both %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts and ~/.local/share/fonts/

🎯 Easy to Use

• Interactive menu with all 70 Nerd Fonts
• Non-interactive mode for scripting and automation
• Install multiple fonts in one run
• Colored output for better user experience
• Installed font detection — already-installed fonts are highlighted in green in the interactive menu
• --list shows fonts currently installed on your system, not the full catalog
• Input validation and error handling
• Automatic cleanup of temporary files

🔧 Platform-Specific Installation

• Linux: Installs to ~/.local/share/fonts/ (or $XDG_DATA_HOME/fonts/) and refreshes font cache
• macOS: Installs to ~/Library/Fonts/
• Windows (Cygwin): Installs to both %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts and ~/.local/share/fonts/ (or $XDG_DATA_HOME/fonts/), and refreshes font cache
• Windows: Installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts and registers with system

📦 Font Support

• Supports both .ttf and .otf font files
• Downloads latest versions from GitHub releases
• Prefers .tar.xz archives (smaller); falls back to .zip when xz is unavailable
• Handles font extraction and installation automatically

Compatibility

Windows Support

• Windows 10: Version 1903 (May 2019 Update) or later
• Windows 11: All versions supported
• PowerShell: 5.1+ or PowerShell Core 6+

The Windows PowerShell script has been tested on:

• Windows 10 Pro for Workstations (Build 26100)
• PowerShell Core 7.5.2
• PowerShell 5.1 (Windows PowerShell)

Linux/macOS/Cygwin Support

• All modern Linux distributions with Bash 3.2+
• macOS 10.9+ (Mavericks) or later
• Cygwin on Windows 10/11 (requires curl or wget, tar or unzip, cygpath)

Linux, macOS and Cygwin (Bash)

Interactive mode — pick fonts from a menu:

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/officialrajdeepsingh/nerd-fonts-installer/main/install.sh)"

Non-interactive mode — install one or more fonts directly:

# Single font
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/officialrajdeepsingh/nerd-fonts-installer/main/install.sh | bash -s -- Monoid

# Multiple fonts (space-separated or comma-separated)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/officialrajdeepsingh/nerd-fonts-installer/main/install.sh | bash -s -- Monoid Hack JetBrainsMono
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/officialrajdeepsingh/nerd-fonts-installer/main/install.sh | bash -s -- Monoid,Hack,JetBrainsMono

Options:

| Flag | Env var | Description | |---|---|---| | --help / -h | — | Show help message with all commands and examples | | --list / -l | — | List Nerd Fonts currently installed on your system | | --version / -v | — | Print installer version (1.0.2) and exit | | --quiet / -q | LOG_LEVEL=0 | Suppress informational output | | --color | USE_COLOR=1 | Force colored output | | --no-color | USE_COLOR=0 | Disable colored output | | --nerd-fonts-version=v3.4.0 | NERD_FONTS_VERSION=v3.4.0 | Pin a specific Nerd Fonts release (default: latest) |

# List fonts installed on your system
./install.sh --list

# View help
./install.sh --help

# Pin a specific Nerd Fonts release in non-interactive mode
NERD_FONTS_VERSION=v3.4.0 ./install.sh Monoid
./install.sh --nerd-fonts-version=v3.4.0 Monoid

# Pin a specific release in interactive mode
NERD_FONTS_VERSION=v3.4.0 ./install.sh
./install.sh --nerd-fonts-version=v3.4.0

# Silent install
./install.sh --quiet Monoid

Versioning

This project uses two separate version concepts:

| Version | Description | Default | |---|---|---| | Installer version (--version) | Version of the nerd-fonts-installer tool itself | 1.0.2 (from package.json) | | Nerd Fonts version (--nerd-fonts-version) | Release of Nerd Fonts to download from GitHub | latest |

• The installer version is baked into install.sh and matches package.json. It only changes when the tool itself is updated.
• The Nerd Fonts version defaults to latest (always fetches the newest release). Pin a specific version with --nerd-fonts-version=v3.4.0 or NERD_FONTS_VERSION=v3.4.0.

# Show installer version
./install.sh --version

# Pin Nerd Fonts version
./install.sh --nerd-fonts-version=v3.4.0 Hack
NERD_FONTS_VERSION=v3.4.0 ./install.sh Hack

Re-download and reinstall all currently installed Nerd Fonts to the latest release:

# Update all installed fonts (auto-detected from font directory)
./install.sh update

Note: Auto-detect scans ${FONT_DIR}/<FontName>/ subdirectories. On macOS this feature won't work.

update respects NERD_FONTS_VERSION to pin a specific release:

NERD_FONTS_VERSION=v3.4.0 ./install.sh update

Windows (Cygwin/WSL)

On Windows, run the bash script via Cygwin or WSL. The script auto-detects Cygwin and installs fonts to both %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts and ~/.local/share/fonts/.

bash <(curl -fsSL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/officialrajdeepsingh/nerd-fonts-installer/main/install.sh')

npm / yarn / bun / pnpm / deno

Install and run via any npm-compatible package manager:

# npm
npx nerd-fonts-installer --help
npx nerd-fonts-installer --list
npx nerd-fonts-installer
npx nerd-fonts-installer Hack FiraCode
npx nerd-fonts-installer --nerd-fonts-version=v3.4.0 Monoid
npx nerd-fonts-installer --quiet Hack

# yarn
yarn dlx nerd-fonts-installer --help
yarn dlx nerd-fonts-installer --list
yarn dlx nerd-fonts-installer
yarn dlx nerd-fonts-installer Hack FiraCode
yarn dlx nerd-fonts-installer --nerd-fonts-version=v3.4.0 Monoid

# bun
bunx nerd-fonts-installer --help
bunx nerd-fonts-installer --list
bunx nerd-fonts-installer
bunx nerd-fonts-installer Hack FiraCode
bunx nerd-fonts-installer --nerd-fonts-version=v3.4.0 Monoid

# pnpm
pnpm dlx nerd-fonts-installer --help
pnpm dlx nerd-fonts-installer --list
pnpm dlx nerd-fonts-installer
pnpm dlx nerd-fonts-installer Hack FiraCode
pnpm dlx nerd-fonts-installer --nerd-fonts-version=v3.4.0 Monoid

# deno
deno run --allow-run npm:nerd-fonts-installer -- --help
deno run --allow-run npm:nerd-fonts-installer -- --list
deno run --allow-run npm:nerd-fonts-installer
deno run --allow-run npm:nerd-fonts-installer -- Hack FiraCode
deno run --allow-run npm:nerd-fonts-installer -- --nerd-fonts-version=v3.4.0 Monoid

Or install globally (all flags and commands work the same):

npm install -g nerd-fonts-installer

nerd-fonts-installer --help
nerd-fonts-installer --list
nerd-fonts-installer
nerd-fonts-installer Hack FiraCode
nerd-fonts-installer --nerd-fonts-version=v3.4.0
nerd-fonts-installer --quiet Monoid