The birth of Inter | Figma Blog
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How the new open source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
Rasmus Andersson came up with the idea for Inter in his work on Figma. We'd used Roboto (designed by Christian Robertson for Google) as our main font for years, and we were running up against its limitations. It was originally built to work as both a display typeface (for things like titles) and text typeface (for longer blocks like paragraphs). But it was difficult to read Roboto when it was small (small text makes up much of the typography in Figma's UI). Rasmus and the design team did a month-long research project to find a better-suiting option, but Roboto still came out on top and we…
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