Fira Sans font update

Last weekend, Erik Spiekermann, a well-known specialist, announced the release of a new version of the Fira Sans (3.1) font. Prior to this, the font was available in eight styles: (light, regular, medium and bold) * italic and a separate Fira Mono in regular and bold styles. In the new version, an additional 24 outlines appeared, from hair to ultra. Thus, the font has become one of the richest of all free fonts.

Fira Sans was developed by a group of designers led by Eric Shpikermann in 2013 for Mozilla and its operating system Firefox OS. The basis of the font was the popular commercial font FF Meta , which was also published under the authorship of Eric Spieckermann.

The font is well suited for typing large amounts of text and headings. And light-patterns perfectly fit into the paradigm of flat-design.

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The updated version of the font is available immediately in all formats: for the web and desktop. However, the original styles start from weight 20, to weight 950, which is not in the range of font-weight available on the web, which is limited to only nine values: 100-900. To publish the font in our home, we divided it into three different fonts: Fira Sans Light , where all the “thin” styles went, Fira Sans with the styles from 100 to 700 and Fira Sans Heavy , where the most massive styles are found: extrabold, heavy and ultra . At the same time in the downloadable archive are all at once. The fonts are published in the original formats distributed by the author, no changes have been made.
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The original otf files are available on the official site of the font.