FiraGO 1.0 * NEW *

15 weights, 2 styles (Roman & Italic)

New family name

For several reasons, we decided to establish FiraGO as a new product. That way users of FiraSans can also install FiraGO without any conflict.

Script support

Identical to Fira Sans 4.3:

Latin Extended
IPA
Pan African
Cyrillic Extended (+ locl BGR and SRB)
Polytonic Greek

Additionally in FiraGO:

Arabic
Devanagari
Georgian
Hebrew
Thai

Technical improvements

Manual basic True Type Hinting via Glyphs

Please also see the pdf comparison document.

Future prospect

All upcoming extensions will be based on FiraGO.
Fira Sans version 4.3 will be the last version for the time being.
Math? Mono extension? Mono Italic? Serif? Slab? FiraGO Condensed? Broader script support? …
It’s up to you. We’re looking for extension funding and expert’s consultancy.

LEGAL

Digitized data copyright 2012-2018 for FiraGO, Carrois Corporate GbR and HERE Europe B.V. All rights reserved, with Reserved Font Name "Fira"
Digitized data copyright 2012-2018 for Fira Sans up to version 4.3 The Mozilla Foundation, Telefonica S.A., Carrois Corporate GbR and bBox Type GmbH, with Reserved Font Name "Fira"
Design 2016 and later for Fira Sans & FiraGO: Carrois Corporate GbR and bBox Type GmbH

Contributors FiraGO

Design FiraGO Arabic: Ralph du Carrois, Titus Nemeth and Hasan Abu Afash
Design FiraGO Devanagari: Rob Keller, Kimya Gandhi and Natalie Rauch
Design FiraGO Georgian: Akaki Razmadze and Anja Meiners
Design FiraGO Hebrew: Natalie Rauch with consultancy support by Yanek Iontef
Design FiraGO Thai: Mark Frömberg with consultancy support by Ben Mitchell
Hinting: Monika Bartels and Anke Bonk at FontWerk (now Alphabet Type)
Scripts and technical support: Mark Frömberg

! THANK YOU ! MERCI ! DANKE ! Dziękuję ! Gracias ! Kiitos ! Obrigado ! Спасибо !

Laura Junkkonen & Carlo Bernoulli at HERE for believing in Fira and making this huge update possible
Designers and consultants (s.a.). It is a pleasure to work with you.
Georg Seifert for all-time technical support and advice. What a mighty tool.
Finally in advance: the whole community who will help improving FiraGO via Mail and GitHub.

Fira Sans is a trademark of The Mozilla Corporation.

Recent Fira Sans versions (this branch will not be maintained anymore)

Fira Sans 4.3 (Normal width plus Condensed & Compressed)
Fira Code 3.2
Fira Mono 3.2

FiraGO font weights:

Two (2 units / CSS 100)
Four (4 units / CSS 100)
Six (6 units / CSS 100)
Eight (8 units / CSS 100)
Hair (14 units / CSS 100)
Thin (22 units / CSS 100)
UltraLight (34 units / CSS 200)
ExtraLight (46 units / CSS 250)
Light (58 units / CSS 300)
Book (84 units / CSS 350)
Regular (92 units / CSS 400)
Medium (128 units / CSS 500)
SemiBold (142 units / CSS 600)
Bold (158 units / CSS 700)
ExtraBold (178 units / CSS 800)
Heavy (198 units / CSS 900)

* Note on thin weight fractional coordinates

All weights below “Thin” use fractional coordinates which is an optical decision. Rendering engines might not be able to deal with that correctly. As for that, these weights should be seen as an experiment by now. If you notice any problems in smaller sizes please consider to use weights from Thin.

CHANGE LOG FiraGO

version/build 1.001 (20.03.18)

parallel to Fira Sans 4301:

issue #25 Fira Sans Repo: change be.loclBGR to ve.loclBGR, thanks StefanPeev
introduce clear names for stylistic sets
separate stylistic variant a and g (a=ss04, g=ss05), for R.Trinler
issue #12 Fira Sans Repo: change shape of /longs according to /f and /germandbls in Italic, thanks thlinard
optimize anchor position of /zeta
add rfn-notice to copyright: with Reserved Font Name "Fira"
issue #26 Fira Sans Repo: Moved ligatures f_f, f_f_i, f_f_j, f_j, f_f_l to liga-feature. Thanks Ray.

only FiraGO 1001:

issue #9: add alternative /four accessible via ss06
make loclBGR/SRB work

version/build 1.000 (15.02.18)

first official version

bBoxType/FiraGO

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