FONTLOG: Fira Sans -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Italic -------------------------------------------- This file provides detailed information on the Fira Sans font Software. This information should be distributed along with the Fira Sans font and any derivative works. Fira Sans Font Information Fira Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Erik Spiekermann, Ralph du Carrois, Anja Meiners and Botio Nikoltchev of Carrois Type Design for the Firefox OS and released in 2013, initially under the Apache License and then under the SIL Open Font License. It is closely related to the Meta typeface designed and developed by Spiekermann in the late 1980s which is being used as the brand typeface of the Mozilla Foundation. ChangeLog 4 Aug 2014 (Christoph Haag) Fira v.4.106 - added updates from otf to fontforge sources - updated FONTLOG - Mastered Font from Fontforge SFDIR to UFO,OTF,TTF,EOT,WOFF,SVG 30 Jun 2015 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.4.105 - ... 25 Jun 2015 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.4.104 - ... 2 Jun 2015 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.4.103 - ... 9 Apr 2015 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.4.1 - expanded 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 12 Mar 2015 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.4.004 - add some Celtic characters, now providing full support for ISO-Latin 1–10 - add /literSign (uni2113) - increase lSB of /napostrophe (uni0149); introduce positive kerning between upper quotes and /napostrophe. Thanks Friedel, Jonathan & Dwayne! - Solved Issues tagged „BUG“on GitHub - # 64: Delete positive kerning between f and u …Finally ;) Thank you charakterziffer. - # 74: Shifted double quotes using WOFF file 12 Mar 2015 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.4.003 - Fixes https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1121355 9 Mar 2015 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.4.002 - expand Fira to comprise the following unicode blocs (added another 200 glyphs since 4.001) Latin Extensions A (uni0100 –017F) Latin Extensions B (uni0180 –024F) IPA Extensions (uni0250 –02AF) - Each font of Fira contains ~2100 glyphs now! - add anchors for combining accent support for IPA and Pan African Beta status!! Please report if several combinations might not work due to missing anchors. We’ll fix it. Thanks! - set CSS weight class to 100 for weights thin and below - multiple minor improvements 20 Feb 2015 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.4.001 - expand Fira according to Glyphs categories. Latin > Vietnamese, Piyin, IPA & Pan African Latin including small caps (add approx. 460 glyphs including regional stylistic alternates for Pan African accessible via .ss01) - add currency symbols (default, osf, tf, tosf): Liraturkish (uni20BA) Ruble (uni20BD) RupeeIndian (uni20B9) - add /Germandbls (uni1E9E) + sc - multiple minor improvements 11 Sep 2014 (Christoph Haag) Fira v.3.1111 - created fontforge sources as base to work on GNU/Linux - added FONTLOG to .sfdir - Mastered Font from Fontforge SFDIR to UFO,OTF,TTF,EOT,WOFF,SVG 7 Jul 2014 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.3.1110 - TTFautohint via Glyphs 2 developer Beta GUI for TTF export - fixed zero width glyphs with no zero value in Italic 2 Jul 2014 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.3.110 - Removed old versions of italic left in the repo. “Fira Sans Regular Italic”is not named “Fira Sans Italic” 27 Jun 2014 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.3.109 - Vertical metrics should be equal for consistent spacing across platforms impossible to get equal values for all OS issues with common methods. = catch: set typoLineGap to 400 (was 200) set winDescender to -350 (was -500) known bug: cuts of lowest glyphs (-353 Ultra) Arabic (should not become lower) Vietnamese (should not become higher) - fixed zero width glyphs with no zero value - fixed PS hinting issues coming up changing grid in the very thin weights 7 Jun 2014 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.3.108 - added style linking for all weights and styles - panose information for single weights - Italic: uni0414 De-cyr in upright shape –commissioned by mozilla, but handwritten shape will come back with Bulgarian and Serbian localized feature in 3.2 ;) – 3 Jun 2014 (Patryk Adamczyk) Fira v.3.107 line spacing ! - added “Use Typo Metrics”to sfSelection in OS/2 table { OS/2 table and bbox size are equal to Fira 1.4 and 2.1 If you have any issues with increased linespacing, make sure your render engine and/or software application DOES read the OS/2 table based information and/or the bbox size } - panose information added to OS/2 table - uni0400 & uni0450 (small & capital/sc cyrillic i with grave –Bulgarian/Macedonian) - uni040D & uni045D (small & capital/sc cyrillic i with grave –Bulgarian/Macedonian) - Mono: now set as isFixedPitch - Mono: asterisk * uni002A now on x-height and a little bit larger - fixed interpolation glitches - New grid export parameters for Two, Four, Eight and Hair 27 May 2014 (potch) Fira v.3.1 - ... 23 Sep 2013 (potch) Fira v.3.0 - Initial release on github.com Acknowledgements If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and description (D). This list is in alphabetical order. N: Patryk Adamczyk E: 411.[.AT.].patrykadamczyk.com W: www.mozilla.org D: Designer N: Christoph Haag E: christoph.[.AT.].lafkon.net W: www.lafkon.net D: Transformer N: potch E: ... W: www.mozilla.org D: ... -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Four Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Medium -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans ExtraBold -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Eight -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Heavy -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Two -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Two Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Light Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Hair Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Thin Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Ultra -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Light -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans UltraLight Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Book -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Eight Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Heavy Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Hair -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Book Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Bold -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans ExtraLight -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans SemiBold -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Ultra Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans SemiBold Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans ExtraLight Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Regular -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Bold Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Thin -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Medium Italic -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans UltraLight -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans Four -------------------------------------------- see above -------------------------------------------- Fira Sans ExtraBold Italic -------------------------------------------- see above