- Heading
- Fira Mono
- Body text
- IBM Plex Sans Thai
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: serious, technical
Fira Mono
About the font
Fira Mono is a free font by Carrois Apostrophe, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 427 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 53% of the em and the capital height is 69%.
Fira Mono is a monospace font designed by Carrois Apostrophe. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts and contains 1485 glyphs across three styles with weights from 400 to 700. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1). It is a static font rather than a variable font, and it belongs to the wider Fira family that was designed for FirefoxOS.
Author
Carrois Apostrophe
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1485
Character and uses
- Mood
- technical
- serious
- Design
- monoline
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Fira Mono has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 427 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
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- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Tatar
- Slovenian
- Bashkir
- Chuvash
- Scots
- North Ndebele
…and 318 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Not included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 1350
- x-height
- 53% of the em
- Capital height
- 69% of the em
- Monospaced
- Yes
- Version
- 3.206
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Contextual alternates
calt - Old-style figures
onum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Mono
- Designer’s page
- carrois.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Fira Mono font free to use?
Yes. Fira Mono is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Fira Mono support Cyrillic?
Yes, Fira Mono includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Fira Mono support?
Fira Mono covers 427 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install Fira Mono?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Fira Mono?
Fira Mono was created by Carrois Apostrophe.
What is Fira Mono good for?
Judging by its design, Fira Mono suits: code, interfaces, body text.
Pairs well with Fira Mono
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