Inter vs Manrope
Two sans-serif faces, set live below in their own letters — then the honest take on which to pick and when.
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Mikhail Sharanda · 2018 · weights 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800
At a glance
- Personality
- Neutral, engineered
- Modern, semi-condensed geometric
- Weight range
- 400–700 (four steps)
- 200–800 (seven steps)
- Best for
- Body and UI legibility
- Brand voice, flexible display
- Designer
- Rasmus Andersson, 2017
- Mikhail Sharanda, 2018
InterManrope
The honest take
Two modern screen sans faces that both feel at home in tech and product design. Inter (Rasmus Andersson, 2017) is the neutral UI standard, tuned for legibility at every size with a tall x-height and a four-step 400–700 range. Manrope (Mikhail Sharanda, 2018) is a semi-condensed geometric sans with subtly rounded joints and a distinctive, slightly warmer modern feel; crucially it ships an unusually wide 200–800 weight range, so it flexes from airy light headings to heavy display. Choose Inter for the safest, most legible body-and-UI default. Choose Manrope when you want a more contemporary, faintly geometric brand voice and the flexibility of very light and very bold weights. In body text Inter is marginally more neutral and legible; in headings Manrope brings more style and a wider weight palette.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Inter over Manrope. Where they agree the strokes merge; where they argue, fringes.
“Hamburgefonstiv” is the type designer's test word — it carries most of the shapes that give a face away.