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+ Interface is a font for highly legible text on computer screens.
+ Download the latest release
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+ 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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+ 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 the Interface family:
+font-family: Interface, sans-serif;
+ + 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 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 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 improved upon based on experience and feedback. +
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+ 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. The playground contains a lot of samples, including some common non English–language words in the playground. +
+ + ++ Please refer to the glyph repertoire + for an overview of currently–available glyphs and their quality. +
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