Inter vs Plus Jakarta Sans
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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Gumpita Rahayu, Tokotype · 2020 · weights 400, 500, 600, 700, 800
At a glance
- Personality
- Neutral, engineered
- Stylish, geometric-leaning
- Best for
- Body and UI
- Brand and display
- Heaviest weight
- 700 (Bold)
- 800 (ExtraBold)
- Designer
- Rasmus Andersson, 2017
- Tokotype, 2020
InterPlus Jakarta Sans
The honest take
Two modern sans faces that both feel current in product design. Inter (Rasmus Andersson, 2017) is the neutral, screen-first UI standard, engineered for legibility at every size and deliberately without personality. Plus Jakarta Sans (Tokotype, 2020) is a geometric-leaning sans, originally commissioned as the visual identity for Jakarta, with subtly distinctive details and a slightly more stylish, contemporary character that reaches an 800 weight. Choose Inter for the safest, most invisible body-and-UI default. Choose Plus Jakarta Sans when you want a fresher, more branded geometric feel with a bit of flair in headings and a heavier top weight. In dense body text Inter is marginally more neutral and legible; in brand and display type Plus Jakarta Sans brings more style. They also pair cleanly, Jakarta on top and Inter beneath.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Inter over Plus Jakarta Sans. 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.
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More about each face: Inter · Plus Jakarta Sans