Open Sans

Open Sans is a humanistic sans serif font designed by Steve Mattison, director of Ascender Corp, on behalf of Google. You can download the Open Sans font for free, without registration. The version of the font contains the full 897 character set, which includes the standard ISO Latin, Latin CE, Greek, and Cyrillic character sets. Open Sans was designed with vertical stress, open shapes and a neutral but friendly appearance. It has been optimized for print, web and mobile interfaces. It has excellent textual characteristics in its letterforms. Open sans is a new generation font. It was developed specifically for readability on various digital monitors and gadgets. This family, launched in 2010, immediately won the trust of designers and webmasters all over the world. The headset turned out to be so universal and convenient, that they began to use it everywhere. You don't know what font to use on your site, so you won't make a mistake? Use Open Sans and no one will dare to judge your choice. There are five basic fonts: light, regular, semibold (bold), bold, extrabold. If you don't have enough space for the text, the Condensed text will help you. This font has minimal kerning and interlining, which makes it as compact as possible without affecting readability. Steve Mattison is a font designer living in Louisville, Colorado. He manages a large development team for Monotype. With over 25 years in the business, he has designed corporate headsets for Android, Citrix, Microsoft, Nextel and Xbox. Steve frequently studies and lectures on the work of typographer Frederick Goudy, and has greatly influenced the development of schools of typography such as Goudy's Bertham, Friar, Tory Text and a host of others. He's also a typographer, musician, author, and great cyclist. Open sans is distributed under an open license, which means it's completely free. Download