Sans Serif family / 12 styles

Open Sans

A free, open-source sans serif typeface by Steve Matteson.

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Type specimen / Open SansSans Serif

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The quick brown fox jumps over 13 lazy dogs.

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Size 56px

Weight

Weights & italics

12 available styles

Included in the family download

LightOpen Sans300

Light ItalicOpen Sans300 italic

RegularOpen Sans400

Regular ItalicOpen Sans400 italic

MediumOpen Sans500

Medium ItalicOpen Sans500 italic

SemiBoldOpen Sans600

SemiBold ItalicOpen Sans600 italic

BoldOpen Sans700

Bold ItalicOpen Sans700 italic

ExtraBoldOpen Sans800

ExtraBold ItalicOpen Sans800 italic

Language coverage

Supported scripts & subsets

Subsets are the character ranges Google Fonts ships for this family. Not every language in a script is fully covered — check the glyph coverage before relying on it for a production interface.

cyrillic
cyrillic-ext
greek
greek-ext
hebrew
latin
latin-ext
math
symbols
vietnamese

Practical notes

How to use Open Sans

01Download the family ZIP from the official Google Fonts link. It contains the TTF/OTF files and the licence.
02Install the files on your operating system, or add them to your design app's font folder.
03For the web, self-host the files or load them from Google Fonts with the @font-face stylesheet linked on this page.
04Read the licence before bundling the font in an app, packaging it with a product, or redistributing the files.