Releases: mozilla/Fira
Fira Sans Condensed
_ Fira Sans Condensed is about 16% compressed
_ introduction of 8-master file (Fira Sans and Fira Sans Condensed), from now on source file
_ export Fira Sans Condensed Latin scope with 16 weights (for exact scope please refer to PDFs)
_ note that kerning is interpolated and will be reworked once the complete 4.1 scope is completed
_ Fira Sans doesn’t contain the following glyphs anymore due to conflicts with emoticon font:
- arrowboth (uni2197)
- arrowupdown (uni2198)
- arrowupright (uni2199)
- arrowdownright (uni2196)
- arrowdownleft (uni2194)
- arrowupleft (uni2195)
- blackRightArrow (uni2B06)
- leftBlackArrow (uni2B07)
- upBlackArrow (uni2B05)
- downBlackArrow (uni27A1)
- globeWithMeridians (uni1F310)
Fira Sans 4.106 & Mono 3.206
Major Release
_ expand Fira to comprise the following unicode blocs (added appr. 500 glyphs since 4.004)
Cyrillic (uni0400 – 04FF)
Cyrillic Supplement (uni0500 – 052F)
Greek & Coptic (uni0370 – 03FF) [except from 12 coptic characters (uni03E2 – 03EF)]
Greek Supplement (uni1F00 – 1FFF)
Each font of Fira Sans contains ~2600 glyphs now!
_ re-introduce curly ampersand in Italic; also added it in Roman.
Accessible via .ss03 OR type ‚ #& ’ (replacement via calt feature)
_ eliminate interpolation glitch in Italic [light master of /exclam (uni0021)]
Thanks, Ralf Trinler
_ edit /Yat-cy (uni0462) and Izhitsa-cy (uni0474 / uni0475)
Thanks, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kempgen
_ place varia and oxia before uc letters just as other Greek uc diacritics (e.g. uni1FBA / uni1FBB)
Thanks, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kempgen
!!! Set new line height value for both Fira Sans and Fira Mono to 1.2 (was: 1.4) !!!
typoAscender: 935
typoDescender: -265
typoLineGap: 0
winAscent: 935
winDescent: 265
(Please note that this was done due to explicit demand of Mozilla and some users.
This change affects existing layouts if default line height is selected.)
*Solved Issues tagged „BUG“ on GitHub *
CSS, Greek & Safari
Secure correct replacement of accented Greek uppercase/sc letters by unaccented letters via calt feature
Thanks, wfdd
version/build MONO 3.200
_ expand Fira Mono to comprise the following unicode blocs (added appr. 500 glyphs since 3.111)
Cyrillic (uni0400 – 04FF)
Cyrillic Supplement (uni0500 – 052F)
Greek & Coptic (uni0370 – 03FF) [except from 12 coptic characters (uni03E2 – 03EF)]
Greek Supplement (uni1F00 – 1FFF)
Each font of Fira Mono contains ~1500 glyphs now!
_ increase SB of /underscore (uni005F) and /underscoredbl (uni2017)
Thanks, Fred Mora
_ introduce new /r (uni0072) > see # 49 GitHub
_ add currency symbols (default, tosf)
/Liraturkish (uni20BA)
/Ruble (uni20BD)
/RupeeIndian (uni20B9)
_ edit /Yat-cy (uni0462) and Izhitsa-cy (uni0474 / uni0475)
Thanks, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kempgen
_ place varia and oxia before uc letters (e.g. uni1FBA / uni1FBB)
Thanks, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kempgen
_ new line height value see above 4.001
*Solved Issues tagged „BUG“ on GitHub *
Mono r looks like dotlessi at small sizes
Thanks, rudd-v-a.
Cannot select Fira Mono as monospaced font under KDE
Note:
We exported nonspacing accents again. Recognition as „monospaced“ should work anyway due to a change in export routine in Glyphs. Please report if not!
Thanks, houserockr and Georg.
Bug Fix Updates
version/build 4.101 (Mono 3.201)
Mono:
_ correct width of /fraction (uni2044) and /divisionslash (uni2215) to 600 in bold master (#56 GitHub)
All Fira fonts:
_ add /tironiansignet (uni204A) – Gaelic ampersand
_ #81 GitHub: should be solved by new export behavior of current Glyphs version (this version of Fira generated by Glyphs2-740)
version/build 4.102 (Mono 3.202)
Exported fonts via Glyphs build 749 to fix bug #81 — please check and report if fixed. THANKS.
Sans:
_ fixed /uni02AD — was upside down
_ fixed some interpolation glitches
version/build 4.103 (Mono 3.203)
_ exported fonts via Glyphs build 750 to fix bug #81 — github
_ exported fonts via Glyphs build 750 — bugzilla 1167071
_ fixed — bugzilla 1167076
version/build 4.104 (Mono 3.204)
_ exported fonts via Glyphs 2.1 build 767 to erase remaining technical bugs from last version
version/build 4.105 (Mono 3.205)
exported fonts via Glyphs 2.1 build 780 to fix technical problems:
_ zero-width glyphs in TTF-files
_ truncation of glyph names
_ fix differences in GPOS-tables between OTF and TTF (affects diacritic positioning)
for Fira & Fira Italic:
_ fix greek small caps issue
version/build 4.106 (Mono 3.206)
_ exported fonts via Glyphs 2.1.1 build 799 to fix UFO problems
_ added top and bottom anchors to all base glyphs (GitHub # 107)