Why do you want to use fancy symbols in your standard monospace font? Obviously to have a fancy prompt like mine :-)

And because when you live in a terminal a symbol can convey more informations in less space creating a dense and beautiful (for those who have a certain aesthetic taste) informative workspace

Heavily inspired by https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline and the relative patch script from Kim Silkebækken (kim.silkebaekken+vim@gmail.com)

You can find every patched font in ./patched directory:

• ./patched/Droid+Sans+Mono+Awesome.ttf (for further informations and license see http://www.droidfonts.com)
• ./patched/Inconsolata+Awesome.ttf (for further informations and license see http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html)

Every font is patched with the following icon fonts:

• ./fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf (for further informations and license see http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome)
• ./fonts/octicons-regular.ttf (for further informations and license see https://github.com/blog/1135-the-making-of-octicons)
• ./fonts/trellicons-regular.ttf (for further informations and license see http://blog.fogcreek.com/trello-uses-an-icon-font-and-so-can-you)

If you use these fonts for https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline then you should have this in your .vimrc

let g:Powerline_symbols = 'fancy'
let g:Powerline_dividers_override = [[0xe0b0], [0xe0b1], [0xe0b2], [0xe0b3]]
let g:Powerline_symbols_override = {
  \ 'BRANCH': [0xe238],
  \ 'RO'    : [0xe0a2],
  \ 'FT'    : [0xe1f6],
  \ 'LINE'  : [0xe0a1],
\ }

You need to have installed fontforge with Python bindings. For Ubuntu users the required package is python-fontforge, for Arch Linux users the required package is fontforge. It should be something similar for other distros.

Every font to patch has a dedicated script because for a really good result some parameters have to be manually tuned :-) so for example to patch by yourself Droid Sans Mono you should run

$ ./droid.sh