Source Sans Pro

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Source Sans Pro
font Source Sans Pro
category Sans serif
Font designer Paul D. Hunt
Type foundry Adobe Inc.
publication 2nd August 2012
example
Font sample for Source Sans Pro

Source Sans Pro is a sans serif font designed by Paul D. Hunt for Adobe . It is the first open source font from Adobe and was published under the SIL Open Font License . The font source files are available on Sourceforge and on Github. Hunt was inspired by Morris Fuller Benton 's News Gothic and Franklin Gothic fonts while developing Source Sans Pro .

Font styles

The font consists of the following twelve typefaces :

  • Source Sans Pro ExtraLight
Source Sans Pro ExtraLight Italic
  • Source Sans Pro Light
Source Sans Pro Light Italic
  • Source Sans Pro Regular
Source Sans Pro Italic
  • Source Sans Pro Semibold
Source Sans Pro Semibold Italic
  • Source Sans Pro Bold
Source Sans Pro Bold Italic
  • Source Sans Pro Black
Source Sans Pro Black Italic

Web links

Commons : Source Sans Pro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro.html
  2. http://www.golem.de/news/source-sans-pro-adobes-erster-open-source-font-1208-93621.html