Font Analysis: Fira Sans and FF Meta

Font Analysis: Fira Sans and FF Meta

Studies – Bachelor of Arts

Module: Typography

Together with Florian Kiefer, I designed and wrote a book that uses the fonts Fira Sans and FF Meta treated and analyzed.

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Title page for the analysis of fira sans

This was the first major project that required a lot of work time.

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Page for the classification of fira sans

But we were able to learn a lot about typography, book printing and book design through this task.

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Further analysation

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Cover for our printed books

Fira was designed by Erik Spiekermann and Carrois Type Design for Mozilla and is based on the font FF Meta by Erik Spiekermann.

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Page for introducing Erik Spiekermann

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Page for analyzing the single characters of the font

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The style of our book represent the use case of the font: Mozilla Firefox