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Inter – open source and legible typeface

176 pointsby stockkidover 6 years ago

12 comments

Cenkover 6 years ago
Previously discussed (664 points, 92 comments): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18784583" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18784583</a>
Theodoresover 6 years ago
I have been working with this font since the last time it was posted here and I am far from bored of it. I did contact Rasmus the developer as I needed a little bit of help self hosting it, Rasmus got back to me very quickly which was very nice.<p>If anyone is using this font do note that it is no longer &#x27;Inter UI&#x27; but &#x27;Inter&#x27;. Update your CSS accordingly even though there is a legacy @import for the old font name.<p>Also take note of the glyphs, there are plenty of them and you can use them for UI elements.<p>If you are doing fractions in your HTML then Inter will do a neat job of displaying them. Calling this a &#x27;font&#x27; is an understatement, it does it all and redefines what a font should be - variable, fully featured and with excellent support in Rasmus + contributors.
petercooperover 6 years ago
This project has one of the best designed homepages and introductions to a project I&#x27;ve seen for a long time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsms.me&#x2F;inter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsms.me&#x2F;inter&#x2F;</a>
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noir_lordover 6 years ago
I switched last time this was posted and I&#x27;ve liked it a lot.<p>With Cinnamon on Fedora it&#x27;s very pretty.
dvhover 6 years ago
Part of the legibility is your screen time, how much time did your spend reading that font. I&#x27;m using DejaVu Sans for about 10 years and while there may be slightly better fonts, it&#x27;s not worth it to change it. Just pick one font and stick with it, don&#x27;t change it every six months. This goes for websites and OS as well.<p>Arbitrary changes are annoying because you are losing your hard learned visual parser settings.<p>On mobile when I&#x27;m about to read longer article I use plugin to change all elements to medium size black on white sans-serif.<p>For legibility, consistency and familiarity is more important than finding the perfect font.
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michaelchrisover 6 years ago
Kinda wanting to have this set the default system font for MacOS replacing San Francisco. Unfortunately requiring a lot of hacking around the OS to do so.
andjdover 6 years ago
If your UX requires a font that is optimized for rendering at small sizes, it&#x27;s bad UX. Just use a larger font size instead.
saagarjhaover 6 years ago
Reminds me a lot of San Francisco, though the terminals are a bit more oblique.
jccalhounover 6 years ago
Any font where l and I are too similar is not legible to me.
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sqdover 6 years ago
What exactly is the difference between an open source font and a free font? I mean, don&#x27;t we also have the bitmaps?
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pvorbover 6 years ago
I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s not rendered correctly in my browser, but I think the kerning could be improved.
pizzaover 6 years ago
nice looking font