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The Inter typeface family

The 21st century standard

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Inter is a workhorse of a typeface carefully crafted & designed for a wide range of applications, from detailed user interfaces to marketing & signage. The Inter typeface family features over 2000 glyphs covering {{lang_count}} languages. Weights ranges from a delicate thin 100 all the way up to a heavy 900. Each glyph has three dedicated designs for weights 100, 400 and 900 to ensure excellent quality at any weight. Optical size ranges from "text" to "display" and there is a true italic variant.

Inter is one of the world's most used typefaces with applications ranging from computer interfaces, advertising & airports, to NASA instrumentation & medical equipment.

The smaller "text" optical-size designs features a tall x-height to aid in legibility of lower-case text, with several contrast-enhancing details like ink traps and bridges. The larger "display" optical-size designs offers clean lines, smooth curves and delicate details for excellent rythm of large text.

38 OpenType features are provided as well, including contextual alternates which adjusts punctuation depending on the shape of surrounding glyphs, slashed zero for when you need to disambiguate "0" from "o", tabular numbers, and much more.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMN
OPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklm
nopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 &→!

ABCDEFGHIJ
KLMNOPQRS
TUVWXYZ →
abcdefghijklm
nopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789&!

Usage

Using Inter is as easy as downloading & installing the font files.
If you're making a web thing, you can use the following HTML and CSS:

<!-- HTML in your document's head -->
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://rsms.me/">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://rsms.me/inter/inter.css">

/* CSS */
:root {
  font-family: Inter, sans-serif;
  font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'calt' 1; /* fix for Chrome */
}
@supports (font-variation-settings: normal) {
  :root { font-family: InterVariable, sans-serif; }
}

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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.

Thin 100 Salient gazelle eyes ExtraLight 200 Internationalization Light 300 Millimeter waves Regular 400 Assimilation engine Medium 500 Botanica Francisco SemiBold 600 Spontaneous apes Bold 700 15 Mango Avenue ExtraBold 800 Comedy Morning Black 900 Hamburgefonstiv
Thin Italic 100 Inorganic compound ExtraLight Italic 200 Extravaganza Lime Light Italic 300 Rectangular ellipse Regular Italic 400 3 hours till midnight Medium Italic 500 Artificial Intelligence SemiBold Italic 600 Sulfur hexafluoride Bold Italic 700 Hospital helicopter ExtraBold Italic 800 Encyclopedia Abc Black Italic 900 United Martians
Thin 100 Chemistry is a physical science under natural sciences that covers the elements that make up matter ExtraLight 200 The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height, but you already knew that Light 300 Unlike a moka express, a napoletana does not use the pressure of steam to force the water through the coffee Regular 400 The Berlin key, also known as Schließzwangschlüssel, was not designed to make people laugh Medium 500 Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer of many films SemiBold 600 Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology
Bold 700 The Sicilian Defense is a chess opening that begins with 1.e4 c5 ExtraBold 800 Padrón province of A Coruña, Galicia, northwestern Spain Black 900 Woven silk pyjamas exchanged for blue quartz crystals

Example text, Regular

One of the most famous lighthouses of antiquity, as I have already pointed out, was the pharos of Alexandria, which ancient writers included among the Seven Wonders of the World. It might naturally be supposed that the founder of so remarkable a monument of architectural skill would be well known; yet while Strabo and Pliny, Eusebius, Suidas, and Lucian ascribe its erection to Ptolemæus Philadelphus, the wisest and most benevolent of the Ptolemean kings of Egypt, by Tzetzes and Ammianus Marcellinus the honour is given to Cleopatra; and other authorities even attribute it to Alexander the Great.

All that can with certainty be affirmed is, that the architect was named Sostrates. Montfaucon, in his great work, endeavours to explain how it is that while we are thus informed as to the architect, we are so doubtful as to the founder, whom, for his part, he believes to have been Ptolemæus. Our ignorance, he says, is owing to the knavery of Sostrates. He wished to immortalize his name; a blameless wish, if at the same time he had not sought to suppress that of the founder, whose glory it was to have suggested the erection. For this purpose Sostrates devised a stratagem which proved successful; deep in the wall of the tower he cut the following inscription: “Sostrates of Cnidos, son of Dexiphanes, to the gods who Protect those who are upon the Sea.” But, mistrustful that King Ptolemæus would scarcely be satisfied with an inscription in which he was wholly ignored, he covered it with a light coat of cement, which he knew would not long endure the action of the atmosphere, and carved thereon the name of Ptolemæus. After a few years the cement and the name of the king disappeared, and revealed the inscription which gave all the glory to Sostrates.

Montfaucon, with genial credulity, adopts this anecdote as authentic, and adds: Pliny pretends that Ptolemæus, out of the modesty and greatness of his soul, desired the architect’s name to be engraved upon the tower, and no reference to himself to be made. But this statement is very dubious; it would have passed as incredible in those times, and even to-day would be regarded as an ill-understood act of magnanimity. We have never heard of any prince prohibiting the perpetuation of his name upon magnificent works designed for the public utility, or being content that the architect should usurp the entire honour.

To solve the difficulty, Champollion represents the pharos as constructed by Ptolemæus Soter. But, as Edrisi solemnly remarks, “God alone knows what is the truth.”

Much etymological erudition has been expended on the derivation of the word Pharos. As far as the Alexandrian light-tower is concerned, there can be no doubt that it was named from the islet on which it stood; yet Isidore asserts that the word came from φὼς, “light,” and ὁρἀν, “to see.” To quote again from Montfaucon: That numerous persons, who have not read the Greek authors, should exercise their ingenuity to no avail in the extraction of these etymologies, is far less surprising than that so good a scholar as Isaac Vossius should seek the origin of Pharos in the Greek language. From ϕαἰνειν, “to shine,” he says, comes ϕανερός, and from ϕανερός, ϕάρος.... But the island was called Pharos seven or eight hundred years before it possessed either tower or beacon-light.

The most reasonable conjecture seems to be that the word is a Hellenic form of Phrah, the Egyptian name of the sun, to whom the Alexandrian lighthouse would naturally be compared by wondering spectators, or dedicated by a devout prince.

At a later date we find the word applied to very different objects, though always retaining the signification of light or brilliancy. A pharos of fire—i.e., a ball or meteor—was seen, says Gregory of Tours, to issue from the church of St. Hilaire, and descend upon King Clovis. The same historian uses the word to describe a conflagration:—“They (the barbarians) set fire to the church of St. Hilaire, kindled a great pharos, and while the church was burning, pillaged the monastery.” The old French historian frequently employs the word in this sense, which leads us to suppose that in his time an incendiary was probably designated “a maker of pharoses” (un faiseur de phares). Still later, the term pharos was applied to certain machines in which a number of lamps or tapers were placed, as in a candelabrum. A modern French writer quotes from Anastasius the Librarian, that Pope Sylvester caused “a pharos of pure gold” to be constructed; and that Pope Adrian I. made one, “in the form of a cross,” capable of receiving one hundred and seventy candles or tapers. And Leon of Ostia, in his “Chronicle of Monte Cassino,” says, that the Abbot Didier had a pharos, or great silver crown, weighing one hundred pounds, constructed, which was surmounted by twelve little turrets, and from which were suspended six and thirty lamps.

Excerpt from “Lighthouses and Lightships”

Features

Inter comes with many OpenType features which 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.

 

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Feature Off On
{% for f in site.data.feature_samples %} {{f.tag}} {{f.title}} {% if f.description %}

{{f.description}}

{% endif %}
{% for sample in f.samples %}{% assign sample_in = sample | replace: "›", "" | replace: "‹", "" -%} {{sample_in}}
{% endfor %}
{% for sample in f.samples %}{% assign sample_out = sample | remove: "›" | remove: "‹" %}{% assign sample_out = sample_out | remove: " " -%} {{sample_out}}
{% endfor %}

{% endfor %}
cvXX Character variants 1234567890 1234567890 Alternative digits cv01 Alternate one
cv09 Flat-top three
cv02 Open four
cv03 Open six
cv04 Open nine
zero Slashed zero

Guillable ürá Guillable ürá Character variants is a mood cv10 Capital G with spur
cv06 Simplified u
cv11 Single-story a

Efficient after Efficient after Give it a compact character cv12 Compact f
cv13 Compact t

010.2*364+8(2).5
−51,67×8÷91{0}:1
010.2*364−8(2).5
+51,67×8÷91{0}:1
123.4567890[1],3 Tabular figures are excellent for tables of numeric data. tnum enables an entire set of dedicated glyphs that have the same width across all weights. tnum Tabular figures
Illusion A03 Illusion A03 Disambiguate between similar-looking characters with ss02 or individual character variants ss02 Disambiguation, or
cv08 Upper-case i with serif
cv05 Lower-case L with tail
zero Slashed zero

It’s “fun” here, yes It’s “fun” here, yes Give a little personality to titles ss03 Round quotes & commas

Listing of all features
aalt Access All Alternates
c2sc Small Capitals From Capitals
calt Contextual Alternates
case Case-Sensitive Forms
ccmp Glyph Composition/Decomposition
cpsp Capital Spacing
cv01 Alternate one
cv02 Open four
cv03 Open six
cv04 Open nine
cv05 Lower-case L with tail
cv06 Simplified u
cv07 Alternate German double s
cv08 Upper-case i with serif
cv09 Flat-top three
cv10 Capital G with spur
cv11 Single-story a
cv12 Compact f
cv13 Compact t
dlig Discretionary Ligatures
dnom Denominators
frac Fractions
liga Standard Ligatures
locl Localized Forms
numr Numerators
ordn Ordinals
pnum Proportional Figures
salt Stylistic Alternates
sinf Scientific Inferiors
smcp Small Capitals (limited)
ss01 Open digits
ss02 Disambiguation (with zero<)
ss03 Round quotes & commas
ss04 Disambiguation (no zero<)
subs Subscript
sups Superscript
tnum Tabular Figures
zero Slashed Zero

Glyphs

Optical size
A
U+0041
A
A
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{% for file in site.static_files %}{% assign _path = file.path | remove_first: "/inter" %}{% if _path == "/res/glyph-inspector.js" %}{% assign glyph_inspector_js_v = file.modified_time | date: "%Y%m%d%H%M%S" %}{% endif %}{% endfor -%}

Language support

Inter currently covers {{lang_count}} scripts

{% for c in site.data.languages %}

{{c.category}}

{% for language in c.languages -%} {{language}}
{% endfor %} {% endfor %}