Fira Sans

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Specification

Designer

Carrois Apostrophe

Foundry

Carrois Apostrophe

Released

2012

Category

Sans-serif

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Interfaces, Body text, Documentation, Signage

Weights

100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900

Styles

Normal, Italic

Variable

No

Glyphs

2,708

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese

Download size

3.8 MB

Source

github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/firasans

Questions

Is Fira Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Fira Sans is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.

Can I use Fira Sans in a logo?

Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Fira Sans belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Carrois Apostrophe. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.

How do I install Fira Sans?

Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 18 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.

Does Fira Sans support Turkish?

Yes. Fira Sans includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.

What languages does Fira Sans support?

Fira Sans covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended and Vietnamese, across 2,708 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

Does Fira Sans support Cyrillic?

Yes. Fira Sans includes the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Cyrillic Extended set as well, which adds the letters for languages beyond Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian. This was read from the font file itself. The complete WOFF2 and the zip both carry it; only the Latin-only web file leaves it out.

What weights does Fira Sans come in?

Fira Sans comes in 9 weights: Thin (100), Extra Light (200), Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600), Bold (700), Extra Bold (800) and Black (900). Each weight is its own file in the download.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Fira Sans?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 62 KB against 135 KB for the complete file, 54% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.

Where can I download Fira Sans as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is fira-sans.woff2, and it is about 135 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.