TE
科技回声
首页24小时热榜最新最佳问答展示工作
GitHubTwitter
首页

科技回声

基于 Next.js 构建的科技新闻平台,提供全球科技新闻和讨论内容。

GitHubTwitter

首页

首页最新最佳问答展示工作

资源链接

HackerNews API原版 HackerNewsNext.js

© 2025 科技回声. 版权所有。

How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be

213 点作者 twog将近 6 年前

10 条评论

ChuckMcM将近 6 年前
Link to the font: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsms.me&#x2F;inter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsms.me&#x2F;inter&#x2F;</a><p>I am not one who gets worked up over typefaces so my short take is &quot;yet another san-serif font&quot; but the discussion about why he chose to do things in certain ways was useful for me in appreciating how this font differs from other, similar offerings.
评论 #20651317 未加载
asadkn将近 6 年前
The most it resembles is the San Francisco font (Apple&#x27;s default system font) which itself was inspired from Helvetica and DIN.<p>Personally I liked this font much better than the other opensource alternatives, especially with the number of weights it offered. I am glad it&#x27;s gotten popular.
评论 #20650577 未加载
cosmotic将近 6 年前
Am I the only one that wishes the article about the font &quot;made for screens&quot; went into more detail about what makes this specific font better for screens?
评论 #20649556 未加载
评论 #20648117 未加载
评论 #20647779 未加载
评论 #20654193 未加载
meerita将近 6 年前
Roboto is installed default on many systems, specially on phones. The speed factor to me is key. That&#x27;s why I avoid using webfonts. I use both San Francisco for those on Mac and iOS and Roboto for the rest of the mortals, including other san-serifs.
评论 #20650720 未加载
Fnoord将近 6 年前
&gt; With a typeface, it&#x27;s just this black box as to who is using some of the stuff, then you have no way of reaching back. You&#x27;re completely reliant on whoever makes use of it tells you about it, which probably no one does, right?<p>I&#x27;ve seen multiple websites (What The Font being one of them) which analyses a picture with text. They then try to guess the font being used. If you could automate this process, you might be able to scrape content and figure out who&#x27;s using your typeface. I guess that is mostly interesting for a commercial typeface looking for software piracy, though.
评论 #20649010 未加载
knolax将近 6 年前
&gt; How do you define &#x27;core set of glyphs&#x27;? There are more than 150 different written scripts in the world — at least those that are well-recognized. Only a small portion of them are Latin-based ... Then, there&#x27;s the Greek alphabet which is similar to Latin as well as Cyrillic. Then we have Arabic and Hangul<p>&gt; Within the first year, before making it open source, I had something that covered the 200 most common Latin characters.<p>Seems like most of the time spent on Inter was the result of the creator not properly limiting his scope. Later he even talks about how the Cyrillic characters in his font seem completely wrong to actual users of Cyrillic because he can&#x27;t read Cyrillic. As someone who deals with multiple different scripts on my computer, I always hated the fonts that try to set a uniform style for every script when many of the designers clearly had no idea how many of these scripts worked. It really only makes sense to try to support every script for fallback fonts like Unifont. Rarely do typographic concepts translate well between scripts. If you want an example, install the CJK font &quot;Hana Mincho&quot; and type some English text in it: It looks atrocious.
daxterspeed将近 6 年前
Took me a bit to realize that this is the same font as &quot;Inter UI&quot; (which I installed right at the end of 2018). It was apparently renamed to just Inter in February this year.<p>The changelog provided on Github gives some interesting insight into development of this font <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rsms&#x2F;inter&#x2F;releases" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rsms&#x2F;inter&#x2F;releases</a> Not only have I found it rare to see a font with active development like this, but it&#x27;s also exciting seeing changelogs that are this detailed.
burtonator将近 6 年前
What&#x27;s the best way to use web fonts on a site that needs to be internationalized.<p>I realize that not all web fonts support all languages but picking between the best ones and then supporting all the languages seems like a pain.
评论 #20647531 未加载
评论 #20647648 未加载
Skye将近 6 年前
This font reminds me a lot of &quot;Rail Alphabet&quot; which is a font designed by British Rail in the 60s which was used to railway signs and also in hospitals. Newer fonts are starting to replace it, but there is still a lot of it around if you know where to look.
asaph将近 6 年前
Is it just me or does Inter look like a clone of Helvetica?
评论 #20647539 未加载
评论 #20647808 未加载
评论 #20649048 未加载
评论 #20648612 未加载