Open Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson
Description
Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. This version contains the complete 897 character set, which includes the standard ISO Latin 1, Latin CE, Greek and Cyrillic character sets. Open Sans was designed with an upright stress, open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance. It was optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces, and has excellent legibility characteristics in its letter forms.
Characteristics
Homepage | Format & features | License | Review reference | Koji page | pkgdb page |
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http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans | TTF | ASL 2.0 | 1035897 | open-sans-fonts | open-sans-fonts |
Style | Faces | Scripts | |||||||||||
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Sans | Serif | Other | R | B | I | BI | Other | Latin | Greek | Cyrillic | Other | ||
Variable | Monospace | Variable | Monospace | ||||||||||
x | x | x | x | x | Light, Light Italic, Semibold, Semibold Italic, Extrabold, Extrabold Italic | x | x | x |
Caveats
- Unclear upstream, was commissioned by Google, therefore the Google Fonts homepage
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