Open Sans font

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About Open Sans

Open Sans is a humanist sans serif by Steve Matteson that Google has used widely across its products. The letters are open and neutral, and the family supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew. It is a variable font with weight and width axes and italics. It is a dependable body font for nearly any website.

Open Sans facts

Designer

Steve Matteson

Category

Sans serif

Styles

6 weights (variable, 300 to 800) with matching italics

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1

Added to Google Fonts

February 2, 2011

Supported scripts

Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Hebrew, Latin, Latin Extended, Math, Symbols, Vietnamese

Variable axes

Width 75 to 100, Weight 300 to 800

Open Sans pairs well with

Companions we pair with Open Sans, each shown live:

• Montserrat
• Bitter
• Source Sans 3
• Domine
• Alegreya
• All Open Sans font pairings

Open Sans also appears as a companion on:

• Source Sans 3 font pairings
• Nunito font pairings
• Lora font pairings

Use Open Sans on your site

Add the link tags inside the head of your page, then set the font in your CSS.

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans:ital,wght@0,300..800;1,300..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;