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 *

#65

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 *

#49

Mono r looks like dotlessi at small sizes

Thanks, rudd-v-a.

#56

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)