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Fonts can still have source code. See this, for example: https://github.com/rsms/inter

I believe the customer mentioned in the article could also be related to Rasmus[0] as this discussion had the CTO of Cloudflare replying https://github.com/rsms/inter/discussions/549 [0] https://rsms.me/

I'd love to hear if anyone has other alternatives. I'm finding myself in a similar place as you do. I found on the About and Terms pages a few software projects listed, which the author claims are what powers Slimvoice: - https://www.blender.org - https://www.gimp.org - https://golang.org General tech ^ and libraries: - https://github.com/aymerick/douceur - https://github.com/jung-kurt/gofpdf - https://github.com/lib/pq - https://github.com/qiangxue/fasthttp-routing - https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp - https://github.com/valyala/quicktemplate - https://github.com/bamiaux/rez - https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js And lastly, fonts: - https://github.com/rsms/inter - https://github.com/IBM/plex - https://github.com/weiweihuanghuang/Work-Sans Aggregated from from: - https://slimvoice.co/about - https:

> If you're looking for something more flavorful than Roboto, use this or Inter. Speaking of which, Inter 4.0 is in beta and looking really good. Now's a great time for type aficionados to try it out and offer feedback! https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases

To be fair, the serifed "I" is included as an alternate[0], along with a stylistic set for other disambiguations[1] including 0/O. This requires OpenType support and some user intervention, but if you're typesetting something it's not impossible. [0] https://github.com/rsms/inter/issues/89 [1] https://github.com/rsms/inter/issues/1

Designer here: Inter is my go-to font - a free (and incredibly made!) cross between Helvetica and SF Pro! Rasmus himself has worked at his fair share of Big Important Brands (part of the original team at Spotify, worked at Facebook, NodeJS, Dropbox, Figma) [0] and it's kinda crazy to me how much Rasmus has affected me: I see the Figma icon he created every day, I see the Spotify branding he founded, I use Inter, it's kinda crazy. Inter is the kind of font that you use when you need something that just works. Not too fancy, not too simple, it's perfect for so many things. And it's free. And it's open source [1]. What's not to like! [0] https://rsms.me/work [1] https://github.com/rsms/inter Edit: it's also not a new thing, and not a 'new SF clone' - it's been around since 2016[2]. [2] https://rsms.me/work/inter/

Agreed that the font change seems like a wash. At first I thought OP was trolling the reader with two identical screenshots :) I suppose the real benefit is having a font available across all platforms. Inter appears to be a high quality typeface, and I appreciate its author for releasing it under an open license. [1] [2] [1]: https://rsms.me/inter/#free [2]: https://github.com/rsms/inter

Took me a bit to realize that this is the same font as "Inter UI" (which I installed right at the end of 2018). It was apparently renamed to just Inter in February this year. The changelog provided on Github gives some interesting insight into development of this font https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases Not only have I found it rare to see a font with active development like this, but it's also exciting seeing changelogs that are this detailed.

That's great news. Looking at the github there are even prerelease builds of a light variant [1] https://github.com/rsms/inter/issues/14

I think if anybody is interested in using this as a webfont, you should take a look at the file sizes of the typeface. They're about 100-200kb each, which adds up if you're using multiple font weights. It could be significant depending on the context of your app. Apparently this is because the font has a lot of glyphs that may not exist in other optimized web fonts (relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/rsms/inter/issues/53).

Looks good! I haven't seen many variable fonts around yet. The samples include mock notebooks and poster layouts, but I'd love to see examples of it being used in an actual interface. (Outside of the site, which uses it.) Also—not mentioned too prominently on the site—but it's open source as well! Awesome work. https://github.com/rsms/inter