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The Interface font family

+ Interface is a font for highly legible text on computer screens.
+ Download the latest release + or try it out in the playground +

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Sample

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How much does it cost?

+ Interface 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. +

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How do I use it?

+ Using the font is as easy as + download & installing locally on your computer. +

+ You're free to bundle copies of Interface with your software, even if it's + commercial and you charge money for your software. Interface can also be used + on the web by either hosting the font files yourself or by including this CSS: +

+ @import url('https://rsms.me/interface/interface.css'); +

Use the following CSS rules to specify these families:

+ font-family: Interface, sans-serif; +

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The story behind Interface

+ Interface started out in late 2016 as an experiment to build a perfectly + pixel-fitting font at a specific small size (11px.) 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 Interface, 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 monospaced + 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 + raster–spcific UPM, but crafting glyphs and kerning in a way that made for + more variation in the rythm and smoother vertical and horizontal stems. + As Interface was being developed, it was tested on an internal version of + Figma—where the author of Interface works as a designer—and slowly imporved upon based on experience and feedback. +

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Current status & usability

+ Interface works great for English–language text, and pretty well for other + latin and cyrillic languages. There's still a lot of work to be done, and + contributions are warmly welcomed. + Please refer to the glyph repertoire + for an overview of currently–available glyphs and their quality. + You can also look at some common non English–language words in the playground. +

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