Fira Sans subsets

Unicode subsets for the Fira Sans typeface. The subsets focus only on Latin + Greek at the moment.

Install

yarn add @affectionatedoor/fira-sans-subsets

Import the CSS file (you need loaders for the CSS and font files):

import "@affectionatedoor/fira-sans-subsets";

Use the font files in CSS:

html {
  font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif;
}

Subsets

• Latin: U+0000-00FF.
• Phonetic alphabet: U+0250-02FF.
• Combining diacritical marks: U+0300-036F.
• Greek: U+0370-03FF.
• Greek extended: U+1F00-1FFF.
• Rest: U+2000-1F916.

Note: In IE9-11, unicode-range subsets don't work as expected, because the browser downloads all the available font files.

Weights

Subsets are available for Regular, Italic, Bold, and BoldItalic. I may add more in the future.

Usage with Gatsby

// gatsby-browser.js
import @affectionatedoor/fira-sans-subsets

Important: Many of the subset files are small, and, as a result, Gatsby will try to inline them as base64 strings in the CSS. This will result into a huge CSS file. To go around that, you'll have to change the inline limit for Webpack:

// gatsby-node.js
exports.onCreateWebpackConfig = ({ actions, getConfig }) => {
  const config = getConfig();
  const fontRule = config.module.rules.find(rule =>
    String(rule.test).includes("woff")
  );
  // Set a very small limit of 3KB.
  fontRule.use[0].options.limit = 3000;
  actions.replaceWebpackConfig(config);
};

See the link for more details.