Fira Sans Condensed

Try Fira Sans Condensed

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Fira Sans Condensed Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Fira Sans Condensed ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Fira Sans Condensed Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Fira Sans Condensed Regular Italic
• Medium 500Fira Sans Condensed Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Fira Sans Condensed SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Fira Sans Condensed Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Fira Sans Condensed ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Fira Sans Condensed Black Black Italic

About Fira Sans Condensed

Fira Sans Condensed is a narrow sans serif, one of three widths in the Fira family. The family was designed to fit the character of Mozilla's FirefoxOS and to stay legible on handsets with very different screen quality. In the specimen the letters are compressed but keep open apertures in a, c, e and s, the lowercase is tall, and the heavier weights remain clear inside. Nine weights, Thin 100 to Black 900, each have an italic, giving 18 styles delivered as static files; it is not a variable font. Each font holds 2,677 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese. Carrois, a Berlin type foundry, leads the project, and the copyright is held by The Mozilla Foundation and Telefonica S.A. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Fira Sans Condensed works

Mobile interfaces

The design targets legibility on phone screens, and the narrow width fits longer labels into small layouts.

Dense tables and lists

Condensed letters leave room for extra columns, with italics available for notes.

Headlines in several scripts

Latin, Cyrillic and Greek share the same narrow proportions, so translated titles keep their line length.

Navigation and filters

Medium and SemiBold mark the active item without widening the label much.

Longer text in narrow columns

Open apertures keep words readable where a sidebar or card allows little width.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Fira Sans Condensed

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Fira Sans Condensed on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Fira Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/FiraSansCondensed-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fira Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/FiraSansCondensed-BlackItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fira Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/FiraSansCondensed-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fira Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/FiraSansCondensed-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 14 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Fira Sans Condensed", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Fira Sans Condensed with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fira+Sans+Condensed:ital,wght@0,100;0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;0,800;0,900;1,100;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700;1,800;1,900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Eighteen static files

Every weight and italic is a separate TTF; there is no variable version in the package.

One of three widths

The official notes describe three Fira widths, all with italics, plus a monospaced variant.

Same character set as Fira Sans

Each condensed font holds 2,677 glyphs, the same count as the normal-width Fira Sans files.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts