Open Sans is a sans serif font by Steve Matteson in 2011, he is an American typeface designer. Most of the typeface designs from Matteson have been incorporated into operating systems. He joined the Monotype Corporation and has been making tremendous contributions to the research and development of the field ever since.
Open Sans was designed by Matteson to be his successor of Droid Sans, which was designed for small text usage on Android screens. For Open Sans, he wanted to design a typeface that can effectively be used in both small and in wide body text. Designed for application in web, print, and mobile interfaces, Open Sans is flexible and versatile in its application.
Open Sans is available in several variants that present different character sets for different design possibilities. It has a very simple and elegant look and is very easy to read and understand, alone or in combination with other fonts such as the Sanpaullo signature font. If you have an Adobe account you have the ability to use Open Sans both for personal and commercial purposes without any restrictions. Also, the Open Sans Font Generator includes an opportunity to design unique fonts and logos for your project on the website for free. It also includes a feature for font optimization for web usage, guaranteeing that all the fonts available will work on any browser.
Open Sans Font History
Open Sans was started at Google and released under an open-source license at that company. The design is based on the open forms, the vertical stress, and the friendly look. Steve Matteson wanted Open Sans to be very legible on the web, in print, and on mobile devices.
When working on Droid Sans for small text on Android devices, Matteson wanted also to develop a typeface for large text sizes. Open Sans has a large extent of alphabets such as Italic, Cyrillic, and Greek and has over 800 glyphs. The fact that it has a very large character set and can be used across a variety of platforms has made Open Sans one of the most used fonts by designers.
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Font Details
| Name | Open Sans |
|---|---|
| Designer | Steve Matteson |
| Type | Sans Serif |
| File Format | OTF |
| License | Free for Personal Use Only |
| Type | Free Version |