Fira (typeface)


Fira Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Erik Spiekermann, Ralph du Carrois, Anja Meiners and Botio Nikoltchev of Carrois Type Design. It is a slightly wider and calmer adaptation of Spiekermann's typeface Meta, optimized for legibility on screens. Fira Sans was originally commissioned by Telefónica for an operating system and then adopted by the Mozilla Foundation for the Firefox OS, fitting in with their brand typeface Meta. The typeface was initially called Feura, which according to Spiekermann was dropped because English pronunciations resemble the German word Führer.
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. In 2015, Mozilla added a condensed style. The family has a large character set including text figures and small caps.
Fira Sans is the font of choice for the New Zealand Government.

Fira Mono

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's available in regular, medium, bold and light.

Fira Go

In March 2018, a multilingual extension named 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.
As of 2018, all Fira families are issued by bBox Type, which is headed by Ralph du Carrois and Anja Meiners.