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The intersection of coding and fonts (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How Google Fonts Changed Their License for Fira Code

In terms of Google search, I think Fira Code is fine. It all leads to the proper GitHub page, my GitHub page. There's actually a little story there. So when he started Fira Code, they had like Fira Sands and Fira Mono license,. They have like a phrase that V license, the name Fira Sands & Fira Mono. And it was fine for a while then they changed it like the license, Fira prefix and all fonts with Fira are ours. After that, the Google Fonts was like happy to take my font.They actually do also do some job on it.It's not like I submit my font to them. They actually

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