Open sans

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Open sans
font Open sans
category Sans serif
Font designer Steve Matteson
Type foundry Ascender Corporation
Creation 2010
publication 2011
owner Google LLC

Open Sans is a sans-serif font designed by Steve Matteson and commissioned by Google .

variants

Open Sans is available in a variety of flavors. There are five weightings (300 Light, 400 Normal, Semi-Bold 600, Bold 700 and Extra Bold 800), each with an italic version that includes a total of ten variants. There is also a separate font called Open Sans Condensed with 3 width variations.

The family also has a number of stylistic alternatives, such as: B. a seriffed capital letter- I (for situations in which this could be confused with the number- 1 or the lowercase letter- l ) and a choice between a one- and two-story g . The numbers can be set as table, proportional or text numbers.

use

Open Sans is a popular flat design- style web design font . In July 2018, it was the second most used font at Google Fonts with 28.2 billion uses on more than 17,000,000 websites .

It is used as Mozilla's standard font for websites and in the Telegram desktop app.

It is the official font for the Labor Party , Co-operative Party and Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom .

Unicode support

The character repertoire includes 897 glyphs covering the Latin , Greek and Cyrillic alphabets with a wide range of diacritical marks . In January 2014, Israeli type designer Yanek Iontef released an extension font that covers the Hebrew alphabet and supports Niqqud (but not Teamim ) for early access. The extension font became popular and was used by prominent institutions like Tel Aviv University in their 2016 rebranding, as well as by the Haaretz website.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Open Sans. In: fonts2u.com. Accessed April 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ M. Haidar H .: Typedia: Open Sans. In: typedia.com. July 24, 2011, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  3. ^ Open Sans Condensed. In: Google Fonts. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Geri Reid: The flat design trend - where to from here? In: medium.com. April 29, 2013, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; accessed on October 14, 2018 (English).
  5. ^ Open Sans. In: Google LLC . Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ אופן סאנס - גופן רשת חינמי בעיצובו של יאנק יונטף. In: הלשכה לטיפוגרפיה עברית. Retrieved October 14, 2018 (Hebrew).
  7. ↑ Oded Ben Yehuda: ״מגניב״ או מבולבל? המיתוג החדש של אוניברסיטת תל אביב. In: xnet. July 7, 2018, Retrieved October 14, 2018 (Hebrew).