Inter vs Outfit
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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Rodrigo Fuenzalida, On Brand Investments · 2021 · weights 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
At a glance
- Construction
- Humanist-grotesque
- Pure geometric
- Best role
- Body and UI
- Geometric headlines
- Heaviest weight
- 700 (Bold)
- 900 (Black)
- Designer
- Rasmus Andersson, 2017
- Rodrigo Fuenzalida, 2021
InterOutfit
The honest take
A neutral workhorse against a clean geometric display sans. Inter (Rasmus Andersson, 2017) is the screen-first UI default — humanist-grotesque, tall x-height, tuned for legibility from tiny labels to headlines. Outfit (Rodrigo Fuenzalida, 2021) is a purely geometric sans with monolinear strokes and near-circular forms, drawn as an open-source display family and reaching all the way to a 900 black. Choose Inter for body text and interface work where neutrality and small-size clarity matter. Choose Outfit for confident geometric headings, logos and hero type where you want a modern, minimal, poster-clean look and heavy display weights. In paragraphs Inter is far more comfortable; in big type Outfit brings the geometric polish. Pairing Outfit headings with Inter body is a clean, honest combination.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Inter over Outfit. 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.