nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Lua Neovim plugin that provides Nerd Font icons (glyphs) for file types and filenames, with colors and light/dark variants. It is a Lua fork of vim-devicons intended as a dependency for other Neovim plugins.

Use cases

• show file type icons in neovim file explorer
• add nerd font glyphs to neovim statusline
• get icon for a file extension in lua
• colorize devicons in neovim
• replace vim-devicons with a lua plugin
• add custom icons to neovim plugin

When to choose

• you are building or configuring a Neovim plugin that needs file icons
• you want a maintained Lua alternative to vim-devicons
• you need light/dark icon color variants tied to the background option

When to avoid

• you are not using Neovim (e.g. plain Vim should use vim-devicons)
• you do not have a patched Nerd Font installed
• you need icons not yet available in Nerd Fonts and cannot wait for upstream

Facets

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ui-components developer-tools text-editors developer-tools windows editor-plugin neovim nerd-fonts icons lua file-icons linux macos

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