Fira
" Grundsätzlich sollte das für immer und jeden gelten. Hilfskredite sind eine reine Armutsfalle perfide Ausbeutung" –Ralph du Carrois
Fira Sans is a Humanist Sans-Serif typeface designed in collaboration by Erik Spiekermann, Ralph du Carrois, Anja Meiners, and Bootie Nikoltchev, and Patryk Adamczyk of Mozilla Corporation. The design for this typeface was originally commissioned by Telefonica and Mozilla for the introduction of Firefox OS. Fira Sans is a wider and calmer iteration of Erik Spiekermann’s typeface FF Meta, a typeface that Spiekermann designed as the antithesis of Helvetica which he found dull and boring. With the name Fira, Mozilla intends to communicate the concepts of fire, light, and joy. Fira Sans was originally released in 2013 with four weights with italics. In 2015 that number increased to 16 variations in total.
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Carrois
Carrois is a type foundry based in Berlin founded by Ralph & Jennifer du Carrois in 2003. Carrois originally began as a design studio, but later transitioned in to a type foundry. Carrois’ strength is the extension and improvement in the field of corporate typography.
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18 Variations
Fira Sans supports a total of 35 languages across digital and web platforms.
беларускі, català, čeština, dansk, Deutsch, Ελληνικά, English, Español, Suomalainen, Filipino, Français, Hrvatski, Magyar, bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, қазақ, latviski, македонски, Melayu, Malti, Nederlands, norsk, Polski, Português, Română, Русский, slovenský, Slovenščina, Српски, svenska, Türk, українська, Tiếng Việt
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"A... he aha te take o tēnei haerenga mai, Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga?" te pātai a Mahuika. Ka kī a Māui, "Kua weto katoa ngā ahi o te ao, i haere mai au ki te pātai i a koe mō tēnei mea te ahi." Ka āta rongo atu a Mahuika ki a Māui, katahi ka kata atu ki a ia. Ka kumea mai e ia tētahi o ōna matikara, ka hoatungia atu ki a ia. "So... why do you come, Māui-tikitiki-aTaranga?" Mahuika finally asked. Māui said, "The fires of the world have been extinguished, I have come to ask you for fire." Mahuika listened carefully to Māui, and then she laughed. She pulled a fingernail from one of her burning fingers and gave it to him.
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27th Letter: This is the final version of my 27th letter of the alphabet “thee” (th-ee). For this exercise I chose to work to design a glyph that consolidated the letters “T” and “H” to be used in context where those letters are used together. My font of choice is Fira Sans Regular. My designs derive predominantly from the letter “H” in both upper and lower case, however I also played with the tail of “g” for the lower case version. I added a foot to the upper case version in attempt to give a sense of balance to the structure.
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When he told Rossetto about this work in 2016, Rossetto asked Spiekermann if his novel, Change Is Good, could use the new printing method. After more testing and a run of books for the publisher Suhrkamp Verlag, Spiekermann said yes. They launched a Kickstarter in August 2017 to fund a limited-edition version of the book, which was a rousing success. In November, Spiekermann and colleagues printed 2,500 copies. Letterpress isn’t an easy choice in 2017, and Spiekermann didn’t underestimate the effort to print a short run of a 448-page book, even on a classic, well-maintained Heidelberg sheet-fed cylinder letterpress. There’s something missing in offset printing, he says. Even when letterpress printing doesn’t bite heavily into the paper — he generally prefers the traditional “kiss,” or light impression for most of his book work — it still has some dimensionality. “We print with enough impression to get the deep black, but without the impression showing through on the verso [reverse],” he says. “The deep black is the thing that everybody notices and that is what we also tell everybody as the main difference between watery offset and letterpress.” The type on a page is palpable, the blacks are blacker, and each book is unique, even when produced en masse. Spiekermann is a renowned graphic designer, known for a wide array of projects across a 50-year career: bold advertising work, corporate design systems, and book design and book writing. He instructs readers on typographic principles in his co-written title Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works, which improved the typographic knowledge of a generation. Somewhere in there he found the time to co-found a digital type foundry, too. His ITC Officina Sans and Officina Serif are among the most widely used typefaces for business and the world. Fira Sans Medium 10pt Fira Sans Regular 10pt Fira Sans Light 10pt
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References M. Butterick (2014). Fira Sans Typeface Review. Typographica. http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/fira-sans/ J. Morrow (2014). Try Out Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla. Do Not Click. h commissioned-by-mozilla/ttp://www.donotlick.com/2014/05/23/try-out-fira-sans-a-free-open-source-typefaceEdenspiekermann Website (Date Unknown). https://www.edenspiekermann.com/https://blog E. Spiekermann (2015). Learning from a world-class designer and typographer, Erik Spiekermann. reedsy.com/erik-spiekermann-interview/ E. Spiekermann (Date Unknown). A Conversation with Typographer Erik Spiekermann. spiekermannhttps://creativecloud.adobe.com/discover/article/a-conversation-with-typographer-erikCarrois Website (Date Unknown). https://carrois.com W. Grace (Date Unknown). How Maui Brought Fire to the World. https://eng.mataurangamaori.tki.org.nz/Support-materials/Te-Reo-Maori/Maori-Myths-Legendsand-Contemporary-Stories/How-Maui-brought-fire-to-the-world
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