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Inter Tight

Inter with tighter letter spacing for display sizes: nine weights, italics and a 100 to 900 weight axis.

Sans Serif 18 styles · variable by Rasmus Andersson OFL

Inter Tight is a version of Rasmus Andersson's Inter sans serif with tighter spacing, made for display use. Inter Tight is a variable font with nine weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 and matching italics, 18 styles in all. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headlines, hero text and large interface titles.

Inter Tight font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Rasmus Andersson
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
18 9 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900
Glyphs
2,542
Languages checked
29 see the list
Last updated
version 3.004

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Inter Tight

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Inter Tight; the download contains the complete files.

Inter Tight font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Inter Tight specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Inter Tight Thin Thin Italic
  • ExtraLight 200Inter Tight ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
  • Light 300Inter Tight Light Light Italic
  • Regular 400Inter Tight Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Inter Tight Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Inter Tight SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Inter Tight Bold Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold 800Inter Tight ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
  • Black 900Inter Tight Black Black Italic

Inter Tight is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Inter Tight

Inter Tight is a sans serif family that takes the letterforms of Inter and sets them closer together. The official description calls it a specialised version of Inter for display usage: spacing that suits small text looks loose in a headline, and this cut closes it up. The shapes themselves stay those of Inter, with a tall lowercase, even strokes and plain, open forms. Roman and italic are each a variable font with a single axis, weight, from 100 to 900, which yields nine named weights and 18 styles. Inter Tight has no optical size axis. The fonts hold 2,542 glyphs and cover Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese, including the extended Cyrillic and Greek ranges. Rasmus Andersson is the designer, the copyright notice names The Inter Project Authors, and the family was added to Google Fonts in 2022.

Where Inter Tight works

Headlines and hero text
Tighter spacing keeps large lines compact, so a headline reads as one block instead of spread-out letters.
Large numbers and titles in apps
Screen titles, prices and dashboard totals set big keep the tall, plain Inter shapes in a denser setting.
One design across sizes
A product that sets its text in Inter can use Inter Tight for display sizes and keep the same letterforms.
Posters and slides
Black 900 and ExtraBold 800 give heavy titles, while Thin 100 gives a light contrast at the same size.
Headings in several scripts
With 2,542 glyphs, the tight spacing is available for Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese headings as well as Latin.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 2,542 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian
  • Vietnamese
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • Bulgarian
  • Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2022 The Inter Project Authors (https://github.com/rsms/inter-tight)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Inter Tight

Inter Sans Serif

Inter has the same letterforms with looser spacing and an optical size axis, so it sets the body text beneath Inter Tight headlines.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Inter Tight on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inter Tight";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InterTight-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inter Tight";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InterTight-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Inter Tight", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Inter Tight with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

The spacing differs, not the letters
Inter Tight uses the letterforms of Inter. The change is in how closely the letters are set.
Weight is the only axis
Each file has a weight axis from 100 to 900 and no optical size or width axis.
Two variable files
The download contains one variable file for the roman styles and one for the italics.

FAQs

Is Inter Tight free for commercial use?

Yes. Inter Tight is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Inter Tight?

Inter Tight was designed by Rasmus Andersson. The copyright notice in the license names The Inter Project Authors.

What is the difference between Inter and Inter Tight?

Inter Tight is a version of Inter with tighter letter spacing, intended for display sizes such as headlines. The letter shapes are those of Inter.

How many weights does Inter Tight have?

Inter Tight has nine weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, each with an italic, which makes 18 styles.

Is Inter Tight a variable font?

Yes. Inter Tight is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900, in separate roman and italic files.

Which languages does Inter Tight support?

Inter Tight includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese, as well as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Greek.

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