Open Sans
12 styles · Variable
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A neutral humanist sans with open forms, tuned for legibility in print, web and mobile interfaces.
- Designer
- Steve Matteson
- Styles
- 12 (variable)
- Weights
- 300–800
- Format
- woff2
- File size
- 47 KB (open-sans-latin-wght-normal.woff2)
- Licence
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Source
- Google Fonts
Usage
Add the stylesheet to your page, then use the family in your CSS.
<!-- HTML in your document's head --> <link rel="preconnect" href="https://cdn.msar.me"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.msar.me/fonts/open-sans/font.css">
/* CSS */
:root { font-family: 'Open Sans Variable', sans-serif; }Prefer CSS? @import url('https://cdn.msar.me/fonts/open-sans/font.css'); does the same thing.
Letterforms that carry the story
Styles
Morning by the river
Quiet letterforms
Stories for a grey day
Light inside the words
The smell of old books
A city after rain
Set letter by letter
Travellers on a long road
Paper boats afloat
First star of the evening
Morning by the river
Quiet letterforms
Sample text
Type on a screen has one job before any other: to get out of the reader’s way. A good headline face earns attention in a few words, then hands the reader on to the text without a jolt. Weight, contrast and spacing do that work quietly, long before anyone notices the shapes themselves.
Serving a font well matters as much as drawing it well. A small file, a long cache lifetime and a stylesheet that swaps in without hiding the text are the difference between a page that reads at once and one that makes people wait.