Hi,
I have a major issue with the font Inter not rendering the proper weight in Figma.
The problem
Figma’s Inter Medium displays as Inter Regular. Here’s my case:
I have deinstalled my Inter font locally, and reinstalled the latest Inter version (4.1). Only the weights regular, medium, semibold and bold.
Next, I checked the Google fonts Inter font, and checked regular and medium weights with a custom typed sentence. I duplicated this message in Figma with my ‘new’ Inter font.
Me and my product team clearly define Inter Medium in Figma, to be Inter Regular. Inter Medium in development, google fonts & even font book clearly look much bolder. I figured that Figma must render it the wrong way, since the other sources match. Here’s the screenshot with the comparisons:
nr. 1 is Inter Medium in Google Fonts.
nr. 2 is Inter Medium in Figma.
nr. 3 is Inter Regular in Google Fonts.
nr. 4 is Inter in font book.
Something is clearly wrong.
This is frustrating because we want to be aligned between our design and development teams. Our developers complain the discrepancies and there is currently nothing we can do to fix this in Figma.