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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
6 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Open Sans
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.750
stroke weight
15% of cap height
0.148
contrast
Low
0.190
letter width
Normal
0.995
Web embed
Use Open Sans on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans:wght@300;400;500;600;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Open Sans */
body {
font-family: 'Open Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Open Sans
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Steve Matteson
- Added to Google Fonts
- February 2, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, hebrew, latin, latin-ext, math, symbols, vietnamese
About the Open Sans font
Open Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, first released to Google Fonts on February 2011. It ships with 6 weights · italic · variable and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 75% of the cap height, normal letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Open Sans against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Open Sans is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.