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The fonts got major updates and changed their names. There is now a new original "Black" weight. They still look gorgeous :)
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Interface started out in late 2016 as an experiment to build a
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perfectly pixel-fitting font at a specific small size. The
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idea was that by crafting a font in a particular way, with a
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particular coordinate system (Units Per EM), and for a particular
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target rasterization size (11), it would be possible to get the
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best of both sharpness and readability.
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However after a few months of using an early version of Interface,
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it dawned on everyone exposed to the test that this approach had
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some serious real-world problems. Most notably that it was really
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hard to read longer text. Because of the pixel-aligning nature of
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that approach, the font took an almost mono-spaced appearance,
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making it really easy to read numbers, punctuation and very short
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words, but eye-straining to read anything longer.
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The project was rebooted with a different approach, sticking with
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the specific UPM, but crafting glyphs and kerning in a way that
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made for more variation in the rhythm and smoother vertical and
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horizontal stems.
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