MAmajewsky·Jul 19, 2023
Link to the actual Fira Mono homepage: https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
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DEPRECATED - Mozilla's new typeface, used in Firefox OS
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Observed mentions: 2013-09-24 21:43:35 UTC to 2023-07-19 12:05:40 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
15 sourcesThe Fira family - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_(typeface) - https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
To a lesser extent IBM Plex - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Plex
And a genuine classic in the the Eurostile family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostile
In Ask HN: Show me some most beautiful fontsFira Mono link seems to be no longer served(redirects to general style guides page). Maybe you could link https://github.com/mozilla/Fira instead?
In Programming Fonts – Test DriveI love Firacode and use it in Android Studio/IntelliJ but it has this bug[0] where "=" is invisible in Gnome terminal. So, I had to switch to Fira Mono[1], the parent of Fira Code, from Mozilla. Fira Mono doesn't have cool ligatures but it's a good font and works pretty well.
[0] : https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/162
[1] : https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
In Monospaced Programming Fonts with LigaturesWould love to find build/hacking instructions somewhere. I'm interested in modifying a font and adding ligatures for use my in my programming editor (as is done in https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig/). The best I could find is https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/issues/62.
In Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open sourceI've used Inconsolata exclusively (the original first [1], then the -dz variant [2], then the -g variant [3]) since 2002 or 2003.
I've recently switched to Fira Mono [4], designed by the awesome Erik Spiekermann for Mozilla.
[1] http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
[2] http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...
[3] http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html
[4] https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
In Ask HN: What programming font do you use?Looks like it's down, and the official links for download don't seem to work anymore. It's available here on github tho: https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
In Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozillaask, and ye shall receive:
https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/blob/master/fira.css
In Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by MozillaIt's licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1:
https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/blob/master/LICENSE
In Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by MozillaThere is, but it is not clear to me which variant is the "master" font, is it the OTF?
https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
In Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by MozillaNo mention of Fira? This is a great font! Thanks Mozilla! https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
In Mozilla in 2013Since it's on Github, consider filing a new issue if someone hasn't gotten to it already:
https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/issues
In Mozilla's New Fira Typeface