ryanoasis/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
64.9k stars · 4k forks · CSS
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 91% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 35
- Human commits, 90 days
- 254
- Human commits, 365 days
- 325
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 8%
- Last commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 10
- Last release
- Aug 21, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 18 recent issues, 94% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 2 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 325 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 201
Top committers
- Finii: 91% of commits
- GoldPigg: 2% of commits
- danifbento: 1% of commits
- my4ng: 1% of commits
- shaunchokshi: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Mar 12, 2016 to Mar 29, 2016: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 327 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- May 9, 2018 to May 11, 2018: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 20, 2019 to May 23, 2019: about 154 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 23, 2019 to Jun 24, 2019: about 85 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 11, 2019 to Aug 12, 2019: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 11, 2019 to Oct 11, 2019: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 25, 2019 to Nov 27, 2019: about 150 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 17, 2020 to May 17, 2020: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 87 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 31, 2022 to Feb 1, 2022: about 230 more stars than usual, peak 233 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 16, 2023 to Jul 17, 2023: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Nov 27, 2023 to Nov 28, 2023: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 13, 2026 to Aug 15, 2026: about 130 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- 5 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution