This is the README for the fira package, version 4.3-2019-10-10. This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX support for the Fira Sans family of fonts (version 4.3) and the Fira Mono family (version 3.2), designed by Erik Spiekermann and Ralph du Carrois of Carrois Type Design. Fira Sans is available in seventeen weights, but six of these are considered "experimental"; the remaining eleven weights (with corresponding italics) are supported with this package: Thin, UltraLight, ExtraLight, Light, Book, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, Heavy. Fira Mono is available in three weights (regular, medium, bold); artificially slanted oblique varints have been generated. To install this package on a TDS-compliant TeX system download the file "tex-archive"/install/fonts/fira.tds.zip where the preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirrors.ctan.org. Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree, likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map files by enabling the Map file fira.map. To use, add \usepackage{FiraSans} to the preamble of your document. These will activate Fira Sans as he sans-serif text font. To activate it as the main text font, use \usepackage[sfdefault]{FiraSans} Use \usepackage{FiraMono} to activate Fira Mono as the monospaced text font. The nomap option will suppress the tex-text mapping of TeX "smart quotes" and other ligatures into unicode glyphs for xeLaTeX and luaLaTeX. LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users who might prefer type1 fonts or who wish to avoid fontspec may use the type1 option. Options scaled= or scale= may be used to scale the fonts. The default figure style for Fira Sans is proportional-oldstyle, but the lining (or lf) option will change the default to lining figures and the tabular (or tf) option will change the default to tabular (monospaced) figures. The default for Fira Mono is oldstyle. Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, TS1, LY1 and LGR. For Fira Sans, the medium, semibold, extrabold and heavy options activate those series as the default bold series. The book, light, extralight, ultralight and thin options activate those series as the default regular series. For Fira Mono, the medium option activates that series as the default bold series. Commands \firaoldstyle, \firalining, \firatabular, \firaproportional, \firamonooldstyle and \firamonolining allow for localized use of non-default figures. Superior numbers are available using \sufigures. Commands \firathin, \firalight etc. allow for localized use of those series. Commands \firalgr and \firamonolgr allow for localized use of LGR-encoded type1 fonts. The original OpenType fonts were obtained from https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, version 1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory. The type1 versions were created using cfftot1. The support files were created using autoinst and are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent at rdt(at)cs(dot)queensu(dot)ca.