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Fira Sans

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Design based on
  
FF Meta

Category
  
Sans-serif

Designer
  
Erik Spiekermann

Date released
  
2013

Classification
  
Humanist

License
  
SIL Open Font License

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Fira Sans (initially called Feura Sans) is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Erik Spiekermann, Ralph du Carrois, Anja Meiners and Botio Nikoltchev of Carrois Type Design for the Firefox OS. Fira was released in 2013 initially under the Apache License and later reissued under the SIL Open Font License. It is closely related to the Meta typeface designed and developed by Spiekermann in the late 1980s which is used as the brand typeface of the Mozilla Foundation.

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 Mono

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

References

Fira Sans Wikipedia