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R package firatheme by vankesteren — release notes from GitHub.

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firatheme woke up after four years and started fixing what ggplot2 changed underneath it.

ggplot2 themetypographyfacetingdata visualizationr package
◆Current state
A ggplot2 theme built around the Fira font family. It went quiet after the 2021 releases that made it pass R CMD check cleanly on all three platforms, then returned in December 2025 with a maintenance release solving a ggplot2 deprecation warning and cleaning up text alignment, followed six weeks later by a facet argument to theme_fira() that adds borders and a custom strip background so facet labels stay legible.
◆Where it's heading
The pattern of the revival is compatibility first, then the gap users actually hit. Faceting is the obvious hole in any hand-built theme — strip labels are where a theme that looks right on a single panel falls apart — and it arrived immediately after the deprecation cleanup, from a new contributor who has now made every recent change. Note the 0.2.4 release notes restate 0.2.3's contents rather than describing new work.
◆Prediction
With faceting handled, further releases most likely track ggplot2 deprecations; the entries don't support a stronger claim than that.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7mo ago

    Faceting support with borders and custom strips

    theme_fira() gains a facet argument that adds panel borders and a custom strip background, making facet labels legible. The gap that any single-panel theme eventually has to close.

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  2. 8mo ago

    Text alignment cleanup and ggplot2 deprecation fix

    Cleans up text alignment and resolves a ggplot2 deprecation warning after four years without a release. Maintenance, but it changes how every plot using the theme is typeset.

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  3. 5y ago

    Clean builds across all three platforms

    Confirms clean builds on macOS, Linux and Windows. The notes restate the 0.2.3 and 0.2.1 changelogs rather than describing anything new.

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  4. 5y ago

    theme_fira no longer returns a list

    theme_fira() stops returning a list and the package passes devtools::check(). A return-type change that makes the theme compose like any other ggplot2 theme.

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  5. 6y ago

    Initial citable release

    The initial citable release. The body says nothing more, so the theme's original contents can only be inferred from what later releases modify.

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