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Fira is a trademark of The Mozilla Corporation.

Digitized data copyright © 2012-2014, The Mozilla Foundation and Telefonica S.A.

Design: Carrois Corporate GbR & Edenspiekermann AG

Note:

All weights below "Thin" should be seen as an experiment by now. They will be optimized within the coming versions. Same applies to "Ultra".

Fira font weights:

Weight EM CSS weight
Two 2em 20
Four 4em 40
Six 6em 60
Eight 8em 80
Hair 14em 100
Thin 22em 150
UltraLight 34em 200
ExtraLight 46em 250
Light 58em 300
Book 84em 350
Regular 92em 400
Medium 128em 500
SemiBold 142em 600
Bold 158em 700
ExtraBold 178em 800
Heavy 198em 900
Ultra 222em 950

Version/Build 3.111 @zwaldowski mod (unofficial)

  • synthesized mono italic variants

Version/Build 3.111

  • TTFautohint via Glyphs 2 developer Beta GUI for TTF export
  • fixed zero width glyphs with no zero value in Italic
    • PDFs stay version 3110, just renamed the zip-folder

Version/Build 3.110

  • fixed TTF/WOFF/EOT in Mono export error caused by database divergence Glyphs2 Beta
  • fixed interpolation glitches coming with new behavior of anchors in Glyphs2 Beta
  • fixed zero width glyphs with no zero value in Mono
  • legibility improvement for code applications: braces, brackets and parens in Mono

Version/Build 3.109

  • mozilla/Fira#43
    • impossible to get equal values for all OS issues with common methods.
  • catch:
    • set typoLineGap to 400 (was 200)
    • set winDescender to -350 (was -500)
  • Known bug: cuts of lowest glyphs (-353 Ultra)
    • Arabic (should not become lower)
    • Vietnamese (should not become higher)

Version/Build 3.108

  • NEW Mono Medium weight
  • added style linking for all weights and styles
  • panose information for single weights
  • Italic: uni0414 De-cyr in upright shape – commissioned by mozilla, but handwritten shape will come back with Bulgarian and Serbian localized feature in 3.2 😉
  • zip-archives without Mac-Resources

Version/Build 3.107

  • line spacing
  • added “Use Typo Metrics” to sfSelection in OS/2 table
    • OS/2 table and bbox size are equal to Fira 1.4 and 2.1
    • If you have any issues with increased linespacing, make sure your render engine and/or software application DOES read the OS/2 table based information and/or the bbox size.
  • panose information added to OS/2 table
  • uni0400 & uni0450 (small & capital/sc cyrillic i with grave – Bulgarian/Macedonian)
  • uni040D & uni045D (small & capital/sc cyrillic i with grave – Bulgarian/Macedonian)
  • Mono: now set as isFixedPitch
  • Mono: asterisk * uni002A now on x-height and a little bit larger
  • fixed interpolation glitches
  • New grid export parameters for Two, Four, Eight and Hair
  • UFO source files instead of Glyphs-files

Version/Build 3.106

  • aogonec uni0105 (>) nicer connection
  • outline corrections concerning some interpolation glitches
  • web font formats added (beta version only)

Version/Build 3.105-lhmod (unofficial)

  • Correct Mono line-height on OS X

Version/Build 3.105

  • smaller kerning issues
  • minor outline corrections concerning interpolation issues
  • T cedilla centered in Mono

Version/Build 3.104

_ smaller kerning issues _ all Bold weights from 160 to 158 (better results with hinting) _ j Mono: wider shape _ g Mono: equal style to Sans now (lower terminal)

Version/Build 3.103

  • auto linespacing fixed (equal to Fira2.x)
  • ligature feature set to ‚dliv’ in Mono faces
  • new shape for J in Mono faces
  • fixed hinting bug in heavy weights
  • fixed hcircumflex accent position in lighter weights
  • adding SmallCaps for free valuation service: adding as much composites as possible via Glyph 1.4.4 database from 3.001

Version/Build 3.102

  • improved for el-cyrillic / all cases л Л л.sc
  • improved shape for alpha α, pi π, tau τ
  • minor kerning issues for punctuation
  • minor spacing issues

Version/Build 3.101

  • no more empty glyphs in CYR

Version/Build 3.100

! all new Italic ! ! all new SmallCaps !

  • mark feature for combining accents
  • new bbox
  • new family zones
  • UC 0313 and 0314 added
  • UC 2205 added
  • similar shape for ampersand Italic and Upright
  • more common greek as mentioned in Deu. 2013
  • new shape cyrillic я (ia) lowercase
  • possibility of a stylistic set for /beta /zeta /sigma (ss10)
  • restored combing accents
  • no more hard ink-traps in M N 3 and relatives
  • fixed interpolation difficulties Cyrillic
  • added lost mu to Greek
  • improved kerning
  • new shape for ogonek
  • improved connection of ogonek to e and U
  • fixed witdth .tf .tosf
  • removed figurespace form .tf and .tosf

Version/Build 3.002

  • improved kerning
  • overlap crash fi lig fixed
  • Unicode Ranges rebuilt by Glyphs2Beta via makeOTF
  • removed helping glyphs from cyrillic part

Version/Build 3.001

  • first Beta