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The intersection of coding and fonts (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Fira Sands: The Open Source Font for Firefox

The original work on Fira Sands was done I think by Rodolf Coroese or something like that, and Eric Spicherman. The font already was built and it was openly distributed and it had mono space. It's an open type font license, so anybody can build modifications and distribute them freely. They did release a version called Fira Code which is just Fira Mono with different line height, no ligatures, nothing at all.

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