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The Inter font family version 4.0

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46 pointsquyleanh11 comments

IMO the best workhorse sans font out there right now. OFL or otherwise. I've seen people dismiss every such font as a mere helvetica clone but they all miss out on the steady incremental improvements that each of such "clones" offer.

Inter is carefully crafted. It is uncommon to find OFL fonts that are hand tuned to such a degree (kerning and hinting). It is a beautiful and subtly unique take on a time tested design.

Inter is one of my favourite user-interface fonts. It's great to see it's still developing!

I still don't like the tight spacing (space between the glyphs). Adding a `letter-spacing: 0.1px` to the Regular makes words look less cramped at body copy size.

Never understood the hype around this font. Always looked a bit boring to me. Not that boring is a bad thing, I suppose.

I haven't used this font but looking at it closely, I can't find anything that I don't like. If that extends to its kerning etc, then I wholly approve. Much like Helvetica, it's not about what it has but what it doesn't have that makes it good. I would compare it to a comfort food, which may not seem so special on-paper, but that you never tire of and am always up to have.

I see that appeal of it for sure. To my eye though, there seems to be many fonts in the same category, which doesn't make this any special really. But I suppose you might be seeing something in it that makes it perfectly comfortable for you.

I don't really like using "comfortable" fonts much. I find most fonts try too hard to be pixel perfect, removing "imperfections" that can otherwise humanize a font.

I am fine with everyone moving on to Inter I have seen enough Neutraface for a lifetime by now.

Ah, IntelliJ uses this font. I always wonder why IntelliJ uses it.

Part Univers/Zurich, part Mac's SF. Hits the spot for me!

Inter is perhaps most recognizable as the typeface used in Slack.

Slack uses Lato, not Inter.

https://brand.slackhq.com/typography#:~:text=Product%20font,....

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