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Re: The Interface font family

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Post by brusch64 »

davidad_ wrote: post #50
jack_jennings wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Rasmus, I think that at the point size at which this is meant to be used—e.g. around 11px ( https://rsms.me/interface/lab/?size=11&compare=roboto ) —the differences between the two become harder to distinguish. The issue is really that the character of the type is going to be dictated by the systematic decisions: stroke weight, x-height, proportion, spacing. Starting from Roboto and not changing these parameters i…

FWIW, I do find Interface to be subjectively noticeably more pleasant than Roboto in the comparison here.

For me it was the other way round. Roboto was much more compact and easier to read. Interface seemed to use more whitespace in the words.

Re: The Interface font family

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Post by pluma »

CodeWriter23 wrote: post #76
CodeWriter23 wrote: post #70

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Screen shot renderings? How about just dogfooding the font so one can see how it actually performs.

Try viewing source on the site before deeming my comment as noise: https://rsms.me/interface/res/sample.png

Wow, that's jarring. I thought images as text were a thing of the past. Good thing at least the rest of the page is actual text.

Re: The Interface font family

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Post by TuringTest »

lucaspiller wrote: post #78
davidad_ wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, I do find Interface to be subjectively noticeably more pleasant than Roboto in the comparison here.

Also subjective, but at that size on my machine (13" MBA, non-Retina, El Capitan, Chrome), I find Roboto is a lot easier to read. Interface looks 'greyer' and the contrast isn't so good.

While not the intended use case, I find Interface to be surprisingly readable at extremely tiny font sizes (7, 6, and even 5!).

Sure, you shouldn't be designing an interface with those sizes, but it may be something to consider for some zooming interfaces (primarily maps with lots of tags: street names, POIs, etc.)

Re: The Interface font family

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Post by spatulon »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #51

Dear font authors: Please screenshot renderings via multiple important renderer, important ex: Apple Safari on a Retina box (highlights weird over-bolding due to their hinting prefs), Chrome and Firefox on Windows (both use Freetype, but custom builds and don't quite match stock), and anything normal on a Linux that doesn't use a hacked up Freetype (ergo Ubuntu is out, so is RHEL/Centos and Fedora). Also, in both whi…

My understanding is that Chrome and Firefox both use Microsoft's DirectWrite API for rendering text on Windows, not Freetype.

Re: The Interface font family

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Post by unethical_ban »

jlgaddis wrote: post #34
thinbeige wrote: post #3

A disproportionate sans serif without any letter spacing. It's free though, so better than nothing. Edit: Dear downvoters, what I am saying is that you can take any ramdom sans serif, reduce the letter-spacing and you end up with a similar looking font face which might be even more balanced. Despite my criticism, I expressed my high appreciation that the creator offers his work for free. If you disagree let me know w…

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'd say people should resist downvoting without commenting, unless the comment is very clearly vulgar or spammy.

Re: The Interface font family

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Post by mcguire »

j_s wrote: post #71

I was interested to discover fonts with programming-specific ligatures when they were discussed last month. I haven't experimented enough yet to know how well they work out in the long term. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MonospacedProgrammingFontsWit...

This is a good idea. Why hasn't someone thought of it before? Why didn't I think of it?

I've been using Frama-C recently, with the option of \forall or ∀, for example. The latter is more readable, but a pain to type. I'll have to try some of these.

Re: The Interface font family

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Post by thinbeige »

ricardobeat wrote: post #75
thinbeige wrote: post #3

A disproportionate sans serif without any letter spacing. It's free though, so better than nothing. Edit: Dear downvoters, what I am saying is that you can take any ramdom sans serif, reduce the letter-spacing and you end up with a similar looking font face which might be even more balanced. Despite my criticism, I expressed my high appreciation that the creator offers his work for free. If you disagree let me know w…

What platform/browser are you using? It looks great on iOS, feels similar to San Francisco.

iOS + Safari
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