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Open Sans is an
The typeface is characterized by its wide apertures on many letters and a large x-height, making it highly legible on screens and at small sizes. Being part of the humanist genre of sans-serif typefaces, it also features a true italic style. As of July 2018, Open Sans is the second most widely used font on Google Fonts, serving over four billion views per day across more than 20 million websites.[3]
In March 2021, the Open Sans font family was updated to include a variable font version, which now also supports Hebrew characters.[4]
Use
Open Sans is popular in flat design-style web design.[5]
Open Sans is used in some of Google's web pages as well as its print and web advertisements. It is the official font of the UK's Labour, Co-operative, and Liberal Democrat parties.
Used in WordPress 3.8 which was released on December 12, 2013. [6]
Development
According to Google, it was developed with an "upright stress, open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance" and is "optimized for legibility across print, web, and mobile interfaces."
Unicode support
The character repertoire contains 897
In January 2014, Israeli type designer Yanek Iontef released an extension font covering the Hebrew alphabet with support for niqqud (but not cantillation marks) for early access.[9] The extension font went on to become popular and to be used by prominent institutions such as Tel Aviv University in its 2016 rebranding, and by the Haaretz website.[10] Hebrew support was added in March 2021.
Derivatives
Open Sans has six weights (Light 300, Normal 400, Medium 500, Semi-Bold 600, Bold 700 and Extra Bold 800), each of them with an italic version, totaling 12 versions, although the Medium and Medium Italic styles are not yet accepted into Adobe Fonts. It has a number of
Open Sans Condensed
Open Sans Condensed has three styles: light, bold and light italic.[12] As of 2021, the "Regular", "Semibold", and "Extra Bold" versions have been released to GitHub, but not yet accepted into Google Fonts or Adobe Fonts.
Open Serif
Matteson designed Open Serif, a companion slab serif typeface family. While Open Serif is not open-source, the font is sold by Matteson Typographics, owned by Steve Matteson and released on August 26, 2016.[13]
Open Sans Soft
On March 23, 2021, Matteson released a rounded version of Open Sans called Open Sans Soft. Like Open Serif, it is not an open-source font and is sold by Matteson Typographics. In contrast to the original open-source Open Sans, the capital 'i' with a serif is the default glyph for that letter, with the glyph without a serif as a
See also
- Droid Sans
- Noto fonts
References
- ^ fonts2u: Open Sans, "2010-12-20"
- ^ Typedia: Open Sans
- ^ a b "Open Sans". Google Fonts. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- ^ "Open Sans". Google Fonts. Archived from the original on 2023-12-16. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
- ^ Reid, Geri (April 29, 2013). "The flat design trend - where to from here?". Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
- ^ Mullenweg, Matt (12 December 2013). "WordPress 3.8 "Parker"". WordPress News. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ^ Middendorp, Jan. "Creative Characters: Steve Matteson". MyFonts. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ Moss, Ben (26 August 2013). "Interview: Steve Matteson". Webdesigner Depot. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ "אופן סאנס – גופן רשת חינמי בעיצובו של יאנק יונטף" [Open Sans - A Free Web-font designed by Yanek Iontef]. הלשכה לטיפוגרפיה עברית (in Hebrew). 2014-01-19. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- ^ Ben Yehuda, Oded. "״מגניב״ או מבולבל? המיתוג החדש של אוניברסיטת תל אביב" ['Cool' or Confused? The New Branding of Tel Aviv University]. xnet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- ^ Open Sans, version 1.10
- ^ "Open Sans Condensed". Google Fonts. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- ^ "Open Serif". MyFonts. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
- ^ "Open Sans Soft". MyFonts. Retrieved 11 October 2021.