- Heading
- Roboto Slab
- Body text
- Open Sans
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, friendly
Open Sans
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Open Sans is a free font by Steve Matteson, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 458 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 54% of the em and the capital height is 71%.
Open Sans is a sans-serif font designed by Steve Matteson. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts and contains 1150 glyphs. The family includes 20 styles with weights from 300 to 800, and it is a variable font. Open Sans is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Steve Matteson
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1150
Character and uses
- Mood
- calm
- friendly
- Design
- humanist
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Open Sans has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 458 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
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- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Hebrew
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
…and 348 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Not included
- Indian Rupee — Not included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 1010
- x-height
- 54% of the em
- Capital height
- 71% of the em
- Version
- 3.003
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic alternates
salt - Stylistic sets (4)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans
- Designer’s page
- monotype.com/studio
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Open Sans font free to use?
Yes. Open Sans is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Open Sans support Cyrillic?
Yes, Open Sans includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Open Sans support?
Open Sans covers 458 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
Is Open Sans a variable font?
Yes. Open Sans is a variable font: weight and other properties change smoothly inside one file instead of needing a separate file for each style.
How do I install Open Sans?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Open Sans?
Open Sans was created by Steve Matteson.
What is Open Sans good for?
Judging by its design, Open Sans suits: body text, interfaces, headings, magazines and editorial.
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