Fira System Font Replacement

These fonts are intended as a system font replacement on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

They are based on the Fira Sans font family by Erik Spiekermann and Ralph du Carrois, and are licensed under the Open Font License version 1.1 or later. This package has been prepared by Jens Kutilek https://github.com/jenskutilek/FiraSystemFontReplacement.

How to install:

Download and unzip the font files from http://www.kutilek.de/download/fira-system-fonts.zip.

Copy the 4 font files into the /Library/Fonts folder on your system disk.

You may have to log out and in again in order to see the change take effect.

How to uninstall:

Delete or move the font files from the /Library/Fonts folder.

How does it work?

These Fira fonts have a special name table with names identical to those of the system fonts. Because the font folder /Library/Fonts takes precedence over the fonts which are in /System/Library/Fonts, these specially crafted fonts are used for the user interface instead of the real system fonts. The original system fonts are not deleted or modified in any way.

How to compile the fonts from source?

You can use the Python FontTools to compile the provided XML files in the source folder, or to work all other kinds of font magic.