beamerbeamer-metropolisfontsmiktex
I'm trying to use the Metropolis theme for Beamer. I'm running a MikTeX (portable) distribution on my windows machine.
My problem is with the Fira Sans font. I installed the package fira using the MikTeX package manager, but when I use the command pdflatex to compile my presentation I don't see that font used like the presentation from the demo.
For this to work easily, you need to install the fonts for your system. Whether the actual fonts are installed by the TeX distribution is not, just in itself, very relevant. (Installing them this way may get you useful helper files, but will not make them easily accessible.)
However, on Windows, this is done automatically when the fonts are installed by MikTeX or TeX Live. It may also be automatic if you use your GNU/Linux distro's packaged TeX Live, rather than upstream's. For an upstream install, TeX Live provides a file which can be used to enable this for GNU/Linux.
This means that you do not need to use file names to access the fonts, but can just use the font names. Moreover, most features and font-switches will work out-of-the-box, at least insofar as they are supported by standard NFSS.
For example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setsansfont{Fira Sans}
\setmonofont{Fira Mono}
\begin{document}
\sffamily
Fira Sans
\itshape Fira Sans Italic
\bfseries Fira Sans Italic Bold
\upshape Fira Sans Bold
\scshape Fira Sans Bold Small-Caps
\itshape Fira Sans Bold Italic Small-Caps
\mdseries Fira Sans Italic Small-Caps
\upshape Fira Sans Small-Caps
\ttfamily
Fira Mono
\bfseries Fira Mono Bold
\end{document}
I do not seem to have any italic, oblique or other shapes for Fira Mono. However, many more weights are available for Fira Sans, which also has a Condensed version, and one further weight for Fira Mono. See the fontspec manual for details if you want to access these or additional features.
I am posting the answer here but it is mostly answered from How to set up the font Scheherazade for use with XeLaTeX?
I simply replaced
\setsansfont[BoldFont={Fira Sans}]{Fira Sans Light}
\setmonofont{Fira Mono}
by
\setsansfont[BoldFont={FiraSans-Bold.ttf}]{FiraSans-Light.ttf}
\setmonofont{FiraMono-Regular.ttf}
to force xelatex to use those fonts instead of whatever it finds in the path that matches the name I provide.
Thanks to both samcarter and Ulrike Fischer for the help!
Best Answer
The metropolis theme will automatically use fira fonts if the document is compiled with XeLatex/LuaLatex instead of pdflatex.