I came across InterUI on Hacker News today. It is “a typeface specially designed for user interfaces with focus on high legibility of small-to-medium sized text on computer screens.”

The family features a tall x-height to aid in readability of mixed-case and lower-case text. Several OpenType features are provided as well, like contextual alternates that adjusts punctuation depending on the shape of surrounding glyphs, slashed zero for when you need to disambiguate “0” from “o”, tabular numbers, etc.

I think it looks fantastic, and it has a very liberal license, and is also open source.

Get it here.