{"id":3584,"date":"2014-05-23T16:53:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T23:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2016-02-19T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T06:41:30","slug":"try-out-fira-sans-a-free-open-source-typeface-commissioned-by-mozilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/2014\/05\/try-out-fira-sans-a-free-open-source-typeface-commissioned-by-mozilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Out Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As designers in open source, we\u2019re constantly looking for opportunities to bring the principles of universal access and redistribution to new areas. While the term &#8220;open source&#8221; may still be mainly associated with code, the value in free collaboration benefits every discipline &#8211; particularly design.<\/p>\n<p>In that spirit, the Mozilla Foundation commissioned famed typographer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erik_Spiekermann\">Erik Spiekermann<\/a> to create a completely free, open-source typeface in 2013. Thus was born <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.carrois.com\/fira-3-1\/\">Fira Sans<\/a>, a gorgeous san-serif font that looks great on the web. So great, in fact, that we\u2019ll be using it in Firefox\u2019s in-content pages such as Preferences and the Add-ons Manager.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donotlick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/firasanspad_smaller1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donotlick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/firasanspad_smaller1.png\" alt=\"fira sans preview\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t tried out Fira Sans, now\u2019s a great time: version 3.1 introduces 16 different weights, a huge character map, and extensive language support. Also available is <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.carrois.com\/fira-3-1\/\">Fira Mono<\/a>, a monospaced version of the original. Give it a spin on your next project!<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Boriss\/firasans\/archive\/master.zip\">Download Fira Sans 3.105 (3.6mb .zip)<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As designers in open source, we\u2019re constantly looking for opportunities to bring the principles of universal access and redistribution to new areas. While the term &#8220;open source&#8221; may still be &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/2014\/05\/try-out-fira-sans-a-free-open-source-typeface-commissioned-by-mozilla\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5866,49025,9600],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}