The Fira Project
A global free font family

Fira Type was originally drawn in 2012 as a corporate font for Firefox OS by Mozilla. Over the years, the design has been expanded, technically improved and opened up to many languages and scripts.
As an ongoing font project, Fira has become more and more of an explorer, feeling very much at home in today's multilingual digital world.

Today, Fira is an independent typeface that is free for everyone to use and is one of the most widely used web fonts in the world.

Client: Mozilla · Here
Agency: Edenspiekermann · Carrois Type Design
Output: 3 styles, 16 weights Roman & Italic

Thinnest scripts world wide:
Arabic · Cyrillic · Devanagari · Georgian · Greek · Hebrew · IPA · Thai

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Fira is available in two versions, focussing either on styles or scripts.

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With the support of the geo-data provider HERE Fira got 6 more scripts

Downloads

FiraSans Styles: 124 🌐 + + + +
FiraMono Styles: 3 🌐 + + + +
FiraGO Styles: 26 🌐 + + + +

Latest Versions:

FiraGO 1.0 | Fira Sans 4.301 | Fira Mono 3.206

Embedding

Again available very soon!

Enjoy the full service of simple embedding as you know ist from Google fonts or download all font formats to use on your own devices, servers or websites.

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All Fira Families

Fira Sans

  • Two Italic
  • Four Italic
  • Eight Italic
  • Hair Italic
  • Thin Italic
  • UltraLight Italic
  • ExtraLight Italic
  • Light Italic
  • Book Italic
  • Regular Italic
  • Medium Italic
  • SemiBold Italic
  • Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold Italic
  • Heavy Italic
  • Ultra Italic

Fira Sans Condensed

  • Two Italic
  • Four Italic
  • Eight Italic
  • Hair Italic
  • Thin Italic
  • UltraLight Italic
  • ExtraLight Italic
  • Light Italic
  • Book Italic
  • Regular Italic
  • Medium Italic
  • SemiBold Italic
  • Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold Italic
  • Heavy Italic

Fira Sans Compressed

  • Two Italic
  • Four Italic
  • Eight Italic
  • Hair Italic
  • Thin Italic
  • UltraLight Italic
  • ExtraLight Italic
  • Light Italic
  • Book Italic
  • Regular Italic
  • Medium Italic
  • SemiBold Italic
  • Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold Italic
  • Heavy Italic

Fira GO

  • Two Italic
  • Four Italic
  • Eight Italic
  • Hair Italic
  • Thin Italic
  • UltraLight Italic
  • ExtraLight Italic
  • Light Italic
  • Book Italic
  • Regular Italic
  • Medium Italic
  • SemiBold Italic
  • Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold Italic
  • Heavy Italic

Fira Mono

  • Regular
  • Medium
  • Bold
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A first Fira “child”
Fira Code →

Preview Fira

  • 900
    Heavy
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 800
    ExtraBold
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 700
    Bold
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 600
    SemiBold
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 500
    Medium
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 400
    Regular
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 350
    Book
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 300
    Light
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 200
    ExtraLight
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 200
    UltraLight
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 100
    Thin
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 100
    Hair
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 100
    Eight
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 100
    Four
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives
  • 100
    Two
    Type is the Air we read. 12345go&@ Hamburgefontives

Documentation

„Five new scripts in about five months! That alone is remarkable. On top of that, developing new styles for our maps and taking into account the complex requirements of our cartography team in a timely manner is a creative and organisational masterpiece.”

Carlo Bernoulli
Director Creative UX @ HERE during development of FiraGO 1.0

Downloads & Information

The Fira Type Collection is provided under the Open Font Licence.
Get to know more about OFL here:

OFL / Open Font License

OFL / Open Font License TTX file

With the 2016 extension pushed and supportet by HERE the Fira Project became one of the hugest free fonts worldwide. To realise this within the timeframe and budget specifications, we’d to focus on the “normal” width of Fira Sans only.

Find an explanation to the Fira Collection in our brief PDF file.

Info PDF: Differences of Fira Sans & FiraGO

As an additional feature to the Fira github repository we provide the latest information to the project as PDF files here:

Fira Sans 2012 - 2018

Fira Change Log 4.301

Technical Report Fira Sans 4.301

Technical Report Fira Sans Italic 4.301

Technical Report Fira Mono 3.206

FiraGO from 2019

FiraGO Change Log 1.001

Technical Report FiraGO 1.001

Technical Report FiraGO Italic 1.001

Become part of The Fira Project

FiraGO bBoxType Github

Fira Sans bBoxType Github

Fira Sans Mozilla GitHub - outdated

Downloads

FiraSans Styles: 124 🌐 + + + +
FiraMono Styles: 3 🌐 + + + +
FiraGO Styles: 26 🌐 + + + +

Latest Versions:

FiraGO 1.0 | Fira Sans 4.301 | Fira Mono 3.206

Embedding

Again available very soon!

Enjoy the full service of simple embedding as you know ist from Google fonts or download all font formats to use on your own devices, servers or websites.

A brief guide to the Fira history

Chapter 1 – Fira Sans

Originally designed as a typeface for the Mozilla OS, Fira Sans has developed towards a standalone Open Font project. In 2012, we designed the firstversion of Fira in cooperation with Erik Spiekermann and Mozilla. Over the next years, Fira covered more and more languages and provided further weights and styles.

In 2016, with version 4.2, Mozilla decided to not put effort into the project anymore and in fact quit (please note that their Git is not up to date). Since 2016, we advance the project with the help of different partners. Fira Sans 4.3 will presumably be the last version. All upcoming extensions will be based on FiraGO.

Chapter 2 – FiraGO

Here is a global company offering location-driven data mapping solutions. In 2016, Here introduced Fira Sans to their corporate design. Their aim was to use Fira Sans in their mapping applications. So they commissioned us to create a global script extension and to implement manual TrueType hinting. For different reasons, we decided to establish a new product: FiraGO. Users of Fira Sans can install FiraGO in parallel.

We are looking forward to continue the Fira Story based on FiraGO
– with your support.

Credits Fira Sans

Design Concept Erik Spiekermann · Ralph du Carrois
Design Executive Anja Meiners · Natalie Rauch · Botio Nikoltchev
Project Management EdenSpiekermann · Ralph du Carrois

Project Management @ Mozilla Patryk Adamzyk
Project Management @ Telefonica Pamela Mead · Carlo Bernoulli

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Credits FiraGO

Arabic Ralph du Carrois · Titus Nemeth · Hasan Abu Afash
Devanagari Rob Keller · Kimya Gandhi · Natalie Rauch
Georgian Akaki Razmadze · Anja Meiners
Hebrew Natalie Rauch with consultancy support by Yanek Iontef
Thai Mark Frömberg with consultancy support by Ben Mitchell

Project Management @ bBox Type Anja Meiners · Ralph du Carrois
TT Hinting via Glyphs Monika Bartels · Anke Bonk at Alphabet Type
Scripts & technical support Mark Frömberg
Glyphs support Georg Seifert

Project Management @ Here Laura Junkkonen · Carlo Bernoulli

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