The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Fira Sans
A free alternative to FF Meta.
About Fira Sans
- Designer
- Erik Spiekermann & Ralph du Carrois
- Released
- 2013
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 3 paid font pages
Fira Sans is also a free alternative to…
- FF Meta → The definitive choice — Spiekermann himself co-designed Fira for Firefox OS, explicitly building on FF Meta's skeleton, so the open apertures, humanist rhythm, and angled terminals are the genuine article. Effectively an open-source descendant of Meta from the same hand.
- Adobe Clean → A humanist UI family with more warmth and character than Adobe Clean; strong at small sizes and dense settings, with a huge weight range.
- Segoe UI → Mozilla's OS font, descended from FF Meta rather than Frutiger, so it is warmer and more characterful than Segoe. Excellent at small UI sizes, with a huge weight range.
Display + body that work together
Pages that earn the read
The display sets the register; the body follows through. When both halves of a pair pull in the same direction, the design disappears and the words come forward.
Modern · Editorial Fira Sans + Source Serif 4
Quiet type that does the work
Two thousand years of letterforms boil down to a handful of decisions — width, weight, proportion. Pick a pair you trust, and let the rest take care of itself.