- Heading
- Fira Sans Extra Condensed
- Body text
- PT Serif Caption
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like, serious
- The body font is made for reading
Fira Sans Extra Condensed
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Fira Sans Extra Condensed is a free font by Carrois Apostrophe, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 937 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 Sans Extra Condensed is a sans-serif font by Carrois Apostrophe, part of the Fira family that was designed for a range of mobile handsets. It comes in 18 static styles with weights from 250 to 900 and contains 2708 glyphs. The font covers Latin and Cyrillic scripts and supports Kazakh. It is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Carrois Apostrophe
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
2708
Character and uses
- Mood
- business-like
- serious
- Design
- humanist
- condensed
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Fira Sans Extra Condensed has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 937 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Hausa
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Yoruba
- Igbo
- Uzbek(Latin)
Show 88 more
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Akan
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Tunisian Arabic
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Kanuri
- Catalan
- Mossi
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Fula
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Dyula
- Southern Sotho
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Romany
- Sicilian
- Ewe
- Mandingo
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Lingala
- Central Atlas Tamazight
- Tiv
- Kabyle
- Bikol
- Fon
…and 825 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 — 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
- 1686
- x-height
- 53% of the em
- Capital height
- 69% of the em
- Version
- 4.203
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Contextual alternates
calt - Kerning
kern - Small capitals
smcp - Capitals to small capitals
c2sc - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic alternates
salt - Stylistic sets (4)
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+Sans+Extra+Condensed
- Designer’s page
- carrois.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Fira Sans Extra Condensed font free to use?
Yes. Fira Sans Extra Condensed 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 Sans Extra Condensed support Cyrillic?
Yes, Fira Sans Extra Condensed includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Fira Sans Extra Condensed support?
Fira Sans Extra Condensed covers 937 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 Sans Extra Condensed?
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 Sans Extra Condensed?
Fira Sans Extra Condensed was created by Carrois Apostrophe.
What is Fira Sans Extra Condensed good for?
Judging by its design, Fira Sans Extra Condensed suits: headings, interfaces, magazines and editorial, body text.
Pairs well with Fira Sans Extra Condensed
More pairs and your own text- Heading
- Fira Sans Extra Condensed
- Body text
- IBM Plex Serif
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like, serious
- The body font is made for reading
Similar fonts
More typefaces you might like
Sans-serifVariable
Sans-serifVariable
Sans-serif
Sans-serif
Sans-serifVariable
Sans-serif
Sans-serif
Sans-serif