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Text Weight (450) for High-DPI (Retina) Display users
The Regular weight renders too thinly on high-DPI displays (e.g. 4K, 5k), especially for Mac and Linux users. The Medium weight is too heavy.
Provide a Text Weight (Inter Text), in between Regular (400) and Medium (500), with a weight of 450 for users with high dpi displays.
Examples of other fonts with a "Text" Weight:
IBM Plex Sans Text IBM Plex Serif Text IBM Plex Code Text
Fira Code Retina (https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/872)
Try these: Inter-News.(450).v4.1.OTF.and.TTF.zip Both have auto hinting.
The style name is News (FontLab default for 450).
I do not like to use Text as a style name.
Especially in large families like this which include an optical size.
My custom Inter for LibreOffice includes Inter Text and Inter Disp as "family names."
So the instance name is Inter Text - News.
And Inter Disp - News.
Please give these a try and report back.
Yes, the OTF version of these renders at the perfect 'normal' weight on my high-DPI displays (one a Mac at 218 ppi, the other 260 ppi).
News also seems a sensible name.
As for whether to incorporate it into the main Inter family, I'll leave that decision for others.
Good to know the OTF is working for you on macOS.
I think macOS ignores the OTF PS hinting. And I think Linux does use the hints.
Hopefully some Linux users will see this and test these weight 450 fonts.