https://rsms.me/inter/ Hello * Inter * Samples * Glyphs * Metrics * Lab * Download | [ ] The Inter typeface family Inter is a typeface carefully crafted & designed for computer screens. Inter features a tall x-height to aid in readability of mixed-case and lower-case text. Several OpenType features are provided as well, like contextual alternates that adjusts punctuation depending on the shape of surrounding glyphs, slashed zero for when you need to disambiguate "0" from "o", tabular numbers, etc. 2.5k Glyphs 18 Styles 33 Features Inter Regular Sample [a-z-regular] Inter Bold Sample [lineup-bold-black] [regular-text] Using Using Inter is as easy as downloading & installing the font files. If you're making a web thing, you can use the following CSS or get it from Google Fonts. @import url('https://rsms.me/inter/inter.css'); html { font-family: 'Inter', sans-serif; } @supports (font-variation-settings: normal) { html { font-family: 'Inter var', sans-serif; } } Dynamic Metrics Size [16 ]dp = spacing [0.008 ] em There's of course no absolute right or wrong when it comes to expressing yourself with typography, but Inter Dynamic Metrics provides guidelines for good typography. You simply provide the optical font size, and the tracking and leading is calculated for you to produce the best results. Explore dynamic metrics - Free & Open source Inter is a free and open source font family. You are free to use this font in almost any way imaginable. Refer to the SIL Open Font License 1.1 for exact details on what the conditions and restrictions are. Sponsor Weights & Styles There are nine weights, each with italic counterparts, making a total of 18 styles. [weights-an] Variable Inter is offered as both traditional constant font files (one per style, e.g. Bold Italic, Medium, etc.) as well as a Variable Font which contains all styles in a much smaller file size. Additionally, a variable font is ...variable! You can mix and match weight and italic angle as you please, forming theoretically infinite variations. Variable Fonts not supported by this web browser Weight: [400 ] Slant: [0 ] [ ] Animate weight & slant [ ] Negative Size: [96 ] Tracking: [0 ] Line height: [1.2 ] ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890 ?!()[] {}&*^%$#@~ Variable fonts is a new and emerging technology. This test can be used to discover what a web browser is capable of. Features Inter comes with many OpenType features that can be used to tailor functionality and aesthetics to your specific needs. Some of these features can be combined to form a great number of alternative variations. `calt' Contextual alternates This feature is usually enabled by default and causes certain characters to adjust themselves or be replaced depending on the surrounding context. Disabled Enabled 3x9 3x9 12:34, FE--X 12:34, FE--X 4.2 4.2 (SEMI) PERMANENT (SEMI)PERMANENT SFO - STO SFO - STO IIA [?] OGG IIA [?] OGG ARN [?] OGG ARN [?] OGG M@N [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Smile :-) Smile :-) `tnum' Tabular numbers Fixed-width numbers are useful for tabular data, where comparing columns across rows is desired. Disabled Enabled 1234567890 1234567890 1131711 1131711 0040900 0040900 11:31,711 11:31,711 00:40.900 00:40.900 0.45, 0.91, +0.08 0.45, 0.91, +0.08 1.00, 9.44, -0.13 1.00, 9.44, -0.13 0.00, 1.13, ~7.12 0.00, 1.13, ~7.12 `frac' Fractions This feature is contextually sensitive and will convert "words" of numbers separated by forward slash into proper fractions. This feature is dynamic and allows for any fractions. Note that the digits used for fractions are custom-made for their small size, and are even made separately from the slightly larger Superscript and Subscript numbers. Disabled Enabled 1/3 3/4 1/5 1/3 3/4 1/5 18/29 16/5 18/29 16/5 1337/591038 1337/591038 `case' Case alternates Switches out some glyphs to work better with capital letters and numbers. Disabled Enabled (Hello) [World] {9000} (Hello) [World] {9000} SCHOOL @ RUN SCHOOL @ RUN 3 + 9 = 12 * 1 3 + 9 = 12 * 1 *+/+-x=[?][?]*~<><=>= *+/+-x =[?][?]*~<><=>= - - [?] [?] - - - -- : - - [?] [?] - - - -- : `ccmp' Compositions Inter provides several custom made glyphs for compositions like A + enclosed-combining-circle. Disabled Enabled Figure A Figure A Figure # Figure # Figure 3 Figure 3 Figure 3 Figure 3 This means that for instance enclosed glyphs works everywhere, not just in apps with correct combining character logic. `dlig' Discretionary ligatures Alternate style for a few chacters. This feature is usually disabled by default. Disabled Enabled !?What?! !?What?! ?!What!? ?!What!? `numr' Numerators Disabled Enabled Hello 0123 Hello 0123 `dnom' Denominators Disabled Enabled Hello 0123 Hello 0123 `sups' Superscript Disabled Enabled X0123 (+)-[=] X0123 (+)-[=] X abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Xabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz `subs' Subscript Disabled Enabled H0123 (+)-[=] H0123 (+)-[=] X abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Xabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz `ss01' Stylistic set 1: Alternate digits An alternate style of digits. Note that individual digit styles can be cherry-picked using the cvXX features. Disabled Enabled 1234567890 1234567890 3469 3469 `ss02' Stylistic set 2: Disambiguation Alternate glyph set that increases visual difference between similar-looking characters. Disabled Enabled WP0ACO9XSI1012O9 WP0ACO9XSI1012O9 Illegal Illegal beta sseta Business beta sseta Business `ss03' Stylistic set 3: r curves into round neighbors Lower case r curved into neighboring round shapes for increased legibility and personality. Disabled Enabled Sara Sara ird ird Monroe Monroe `zero' Slashed zero Disabled Enabled O0123 O0123 `cvXX' Character variants Allows cherry-picking alternate characters. Feature Disabled Enabled cv01 1 1 cv02 4 4 cv03 6 6 cv04 9 9 cv05 l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l cv06 r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r cv07 ss ss cv08 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I cv09 3 3 cv10 G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G cv11 a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Additional features, not highlighted above: `locl', `salt', `aalt', `cpsp' and `ordn'. You can explore features in the interactive lab. Language support Cyrillic Azerbaijani Belarusian Bosnian Bulgarian Chechen Macedonian Ossetic Russian Sakha Serbian Ukrainian Uzbek Greek Greek Latin Afrikaans Aghem Akan Albanian Asturian Asu Bafia Basaa Basque Bemba Bena Breton Catalan Chiga Colognian Cornish Croatian Czech Danish Duala Dutch Elfdalian Embu English Esperanto Estonian Ewe Ewondo Faroese Filipino Finnish French Friulian Fulah Galician Ganda German Gusii Hawaiian Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Inari Sami Indonesian Irish Italian Jola-Fonyi Kabuverdianu Kabyle Kako Kalaallisut Kalenjin Kamba Kikuyu Kinyarwanda Koyra Chiini Koyraboro Senni Kwasio Lakota Langi Latvian Lingala Lithuanian Lower Sorbian Luba-Katanga Luo Luxembourgish Luyia Machame Makhuwa-Meetto Makonde Malagasy Maltese Manx Maori Masai Meru Meta' Morisyen Mundang Nama Ngiemboon Ngomba North Ndebele Northern Sami Norwegian Bokmal Norwegian Nynorsk Nuer Nyankole Oromo Polish Portuguese Prussian Quechua Romanian Romansh Rombo Rundi Rwa Samburu Sango Sangu Scottish Gaelic Sena Serbian Shambala Shona Slovak Slovenian Soga Somali Spanish Swahili Swedish Swiss German Tachelhit Taita Tasawaq Teso Tongan Turkish Upper Sorbian Uzbek Vai Vietnamese Volapuk Vunjo Walser Welsh Western Frisian Yangben Yoruba Zarma Zulu Character set All 2548 characters provided with Inter. Tap a glyph to copy it to your clipboard. Use the Glyphs Browser to inspect details like kerning and style variation. 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The idea was that by crafting a font in a particular way, with a particular coordinate system (Units Per EM), and for a particular target rasterization size (11), it would be possible to get the best of both sharpness and readability. However after a few months of using an early version of Inter, it dawned on everyone exposed to the test that this approach had some serious real-world problems. Most notably that it was really hard to read longer text. Because of the pixel-aligning nature of that approach, the font took an almost mono-spaced appearance, making it really easy to read numbers, punctuation and very short words, but eye-straining to read anything longer. The project was rebooted with a different approach, sticking with the specific UPM, but crafting glyphs and kerning in a way that made for more variation in the rhythm and smoother vertical and horizontal stems. As Inter was being developed, it was tested on an internal version of Figma--where the author of Inter works as a designer--and slowly improved upon based on experience and feedback. FAQ How do I enable and disable font features? In web browsers you'll want to use `font-feature-settings'. In Figma you can access features via the Advanced Type panel. In Illustrator, Photoshop and friends, you can access features via the Characters and OpenType panels. Sketch doesn't provide a UI for configuring font features, but there's a workaround using macOS's native font UI. What is the difference between hinted and unhinted fonts? The font files in the "hinted" folders have additional data in them for assisting ClearType, the text rasterizer used by Microsoft Windows (and some Linux distributions.) You want to use the "hinted" fonts only if you are targeting Windows users and prefer the different look of these "hinted" fonts. Additionally, hinting data makes the font files larger, so if you are using Inter on websites, the extra size of these files is another consideration to make. This article explains hinting at a greater length. How reliable are the fonts served from rsms.me/inter? rsms.me/inter is distributed globally over CloudFlare's CDN, backed by GitHub's servers, making usage of `https://rsms.me/inter/ inter.css' and associated font files very reliable and fast throughout the world. Can I help with improving Inter? Yes you can! Inter is an open-source project, meaning the source code--or "source design" if you will--that is used to build the font files are freely available to improve upon. Font making requires a fair bit of technical work and depending on what you'd like to do, some things might be more fun depending on your technical skills. The "Contributing" document is a great place to start. The document outlines where you can have the biggest impact, how things are setup and how to get started. How do I subset the font files? Have a look at pyftsubset and glyphhanger. How do I access alternate glyphs if my software doesn't provide OpenType control? Have a look at pyftfeatfreeze which is a tool that allows you to build font files with certain OpenType features turned on "by default". This website claims work started in 2016, but the git repository's log says it started later? Inter was developed in a private, internal git repository starting in November 2016, prior to being published on August 22, 2017. Between November 2016 and August 2017, there were 2 990 150 line edits made across 247 versions. I've made a cool thing that uses Inter, can I share it with you? or, I have a different question. Reach out on Twitter (@rsms) or over email -- @rsms