Rasmus Andersson
Swedish designer and programmer; made the Inter typeface; early Spotify and Figma.
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- Rasmus Andersson is a Swedish designer and programmer living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- He joined Spotify in 2006 as one of its first employees and ran its design department until 2010.
- At Facebook he led design on Facebook Home and helped create GraphQL.
- He later worked at Dropbox and joined Figma as an early employee and lead designer.
- He made the Inter typeface, used by GitHub, Mozilla and Figma.
Key facts
- Spotify
- Director of design and founding member, 2006 to 20101
- From 2010: design of Facebook Home and Messenger; co-created GraphQL as an engineer1
- Later
- Dropbox (research projects and desktop app), then Figma as lead designer1
- Typeface
- Inter, used by Unity, Pixar, GitHub, Mozilla and Figma1
- Agency
- Co-founded the design agency Flajm, later renamed Notion, around 20011
- Company
- Playbit (GitHub profile, as of 2026)2
Roles
Before
Part of until 2010
Spotify (director of design and founding member) source on Spotify
Links
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