Fira (typeface)

Fira Sans

Category| Sans-serif
Classification| Humanist
Designer(s)| Erik Spiekermann
Ralph du Carrois
Foundry| bBox Type GmbH
Date released| 2013
License| SIL Open Font License
Design based on| FF Meta
Latest release version| 4.3

Fira Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Erik Spiekermann, Ralph du Carrois, Anja Meiners, Botio Nikoltchev of Carrois Type Design and Patryk Adamczyk of Mozilla Corporation.[1][2][3][4] Originally commissioned by Telefónica and Mozilla Corporation as part of the joint effort during the development of Firefox OS. It is a slightly wider and calmer adaptation of Spiekermann's typeface Meta[5][6], which was used at Mozilla's brand typeface at the time but optimized for legibility on (small) screens. With the name Fira, Mozilla wanted to communicate the concepts of fire, light and joy but in a language agnostic way to signal the project's global nature. Fira was released in 2013 initially under the Apache License and later reissued under the SIL Open Font License.

In its initial 2013 release, Fira Sans was available in four weights with corresponding italics: light, regular, medium, and bold. In May 2014, the number of weights was increased to 16.[7] In 2015, Mozilla added a condensed style.[8] The family has a large character set including text figures and small caps.

Fira Sans is the font of choice for the Government of New Zealand[9] and the Government of Iceland.[10]

## Contents

* 1 Fira Mono
* 2 Fira Code
* 3 Fira Go
* 4 Fira Math
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Fira Mono

Fira Mono

Category| Monospaced
Designer(s)| Erik Spiekermann
Foundry| bBox Type GmbH
Date released| 2013
License| SIL Open Font License
Design based on| FF Meta
Latest release version| 3.206

Fira Sans is accompanied by a monospaced variant called Fira Mono, available in regular, medium, and bold.

## Fira Code

Fira Code is an extension of the Fira Mono font containing a set of ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. It is available in regular, medium, bold and light, and as a variable weight font.[11][12]

## Fira Go

FiraGoCategory| Sans-serif

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Classification| Humanist
Designer(s)| Erik Spiekermann
Commissioned by| Here Technologies
Foundry| bBox Type GmbH
Date released| March 2018
License| SIL Open Font License
Design based on| Fira
Latest release version| 1.001

In March 2018, a multilingual extension named FiraGo (stylised as FiraGO) was released. It has Arabic, Devanagari, Georgian, Hebrew and Thai letters in addition to Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets in the typeface. It was commissioned by Here Technologies. FiraGo was released as a separate product, and will be the main font family in the group. All future updates to Fira Sans will be based on FiraGo and as of 2018, all Fira families are issued by bBox Type, which is headed by Ralph du Carrois and Anja Meiners.[13]

## Fira Math

Released in 2019, Fira Math is a sans-serif font with Unicode math support and is developed by Stone Zeng.[14]

## References

1. ↑ "870998 – [Style Guide] Type Guidelines for Firefox OS product page". Bugzilla.mozilla.org. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=870998#c9.
2. ↑ Erik Spiekermann, “Fira specimen uploaded”, Spiekerblog, 30 July 2013
3. ↑ “Fira Sans”, Typografie.info, 20 July 2013
4. ↑ Patryk Adamczyk, “Introducing Feura Sans, a more legible font for mobile”, Mozilla UX Quarterly, Q2 2013 (PDF )
5. ↑ Erik Spiekermann: Type Is Visible Language, Beyond Tellerrand, Düsseldorf 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggQpDu63kk0
6. ↑ Butterick, Matthew. "Fira Sans: review". http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/fira-sans/.
7. ↑ “Try Out Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla”, Do not Lick, 23 May 2014
8. ↑ "Fira Sans Condensed". http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/fira-sans-condensed.
9. ↑ "NZ Government: Typography". https://www.govt.nz/about/about-this-website/style-and-design/typography/.
10. ↑ "Stjórnarráð Íslands - Hönnunarstaðall". https://www.stjornarradid.is/gogn/honnunarstadall/letur/.
11. ↑ Prokopov, Nikita (2021-03-08), tonsky/FiraCode, https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode, retrieved 10 March 2021
12. ↑ "Fira Code — Variable Fonts". Variable Fonts. https://v-fonts.com/fonts/fira-code.
13. ↑ "bBox Type". https://bboxtype.com/.
14. ↑ Zeng, Stone. "Fira Math". https://github.com/firamath/firamath.

## External links

* on GitHub
* on GitHub
* on GitHub
* Fira Sans and Mono at bBox Type
* FiraGo at bBox Type
* Fira Sans on Google Fonts
* Fira Sans Condensed on Google Fonts
* Fira Sans Extra Condensed on Google Fonts
* Fira Mono on Google Fonts

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