Open Sans is a highly legible humanist sans-serif font family designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director at Ascender Corp, and released in 2011; optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces, it features excellent readability with a friendly yet professional tone. Widely used by developers and designers, it supports extensive character sets and multiple weights, making it versatile for body text and headlines alike. The typeface is available for free under the SIL Open Font License (OFL 1.1), allowing personal and commercial use without restrictions, and is officially hosted on Google Fonts at fonts.google.com.

Designed by: Steve Matteson

Category: Sans Serif Humanist

Uploaded by: veer8vkm

Tags: Ascender Corp Google Fonts OFL 1.1 Open Sans font SIL Open Font License Steve Matteson UI font body text font commercial use free font humanist sans-serif modern sans-serif professional font web safe font

SIL Open Font License

A free, libre, and open source license designed specifically for fonts. Allows modification, redistribution, embedding, and commercial use. Requires attribution but not copyleft.