Inter
Inter
Rasmus Andersson, 2017
Sans-serif · A software product designed after about 2019. Screen-native, neutral, everywhere.
Drawn specifically for user interfaces at small sizes, with a tall x-height and open apertures, and released free. It has become the default choice for software interfaces so thoroughly that it plays the role Helvetica played for corporate print — a typeface chosen because it is the one you choose.
The facts
- Designed by
- Rasmus Andersson
- Released
- 2017
- Classification
- Sans-serif
- What it signals now
- A software product designed after about 2019. Screen-native, neutral, everywhere.
Where you have seen it
- GitHub
- Figma
- Mozilla
- A large fraction of every SaaS interface built since 2020
Other typefaces from the 2010s
| Typeface | Year | Designer | What it signals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roboto | 2011 | Christian Robertson | Android. Google. An app. |
| Open Sans | 2011 | Steve Matteson | A website built between 2012 and 2018. Neutral, open, free. |
| San Francisco | 2014 | Apple | An Apple device, since 2015. |
This page describes the typeface rather than showing it. Displaying a specimen requires a licensed font file and almost none of these may be redistributed, so the descriptions name the letters to look at instead.
Common questions
- Who designed Inter?
- Rasmus Andersson, in 2017.
- What is Inter used for?
- A software product designed after about 2019. Screen-native, neutral, everywhere. You will have seen it on GitHub, Figma, Mozilla.
Related pages
- Typefaces from the 2010s 4 here
- Akzidenz-Grotesk H. Berthold AG, 1896
- Franklin Gothic Morris Fuller Benton, 1902
- Johnston Edward Johnston, 1916
- Futura Paul Renner, 1927
- Gill Sans Eric Gill, 1928
- Helvetica Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann, 1957
- Univers Adrian Frutiger, 1957
- Optima Hermann Zapf, 1958
Sources
- Official vendor product documentation — At One Place