Open Sans is one of the most popular sans-serif font from the Google Font Library. Designed by Steve Matteson, Open Sans is available in 10 different styles ranging from light to extra bold. As Open Sans offers a simple yet clean and professional feel to the written text, it is widely used in web design projects.
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- Hiragino Sans GB W3 3.20; Hiragino Sans GB W6 3.20; Hiragino Sans W0 11.0d7e1; Hiragino Sans W1 11.0d7e1; Hiragino Sans W2 11.0d7e1; Hiragino Sans W3 11.0d7e4; Hiragino Sans W4 11.0d7e1; Hiragino Sans W5 11.0d7e1; Hiragino Sans W6 11.0d7e4; Hiragino Sans W7 11.0d7e1; Hiragino Sans W8 11.0d7e4; Hiragino Sans W9 11.0d7e1; Hoefler Text 8.0d3e3.
- Download the Open Sans font by Steve Matteson. The Open Sans font has been downloaded 369,945 times.
- Calibri is a sans-serif typeface font. Lucas de Groot (known professionally as Luc(as) de Groot, is a Dutch type designer) designed this font in 2002–2004 and released in 2007. This font is commissioned by Microsoft. Calibri font replaced Times New Roman and Arial in several of Microsoft’s applications. Helvetica Neue, Raleway, and Open Sans are mostly similar to Calibri font.
- Explore Open Sans available at Adobe Fonts. A sans serif typeface with 13 styles, available from Adobe Fonts for sync and web use. Adobe Fonts is the easiest way to bring great type into your workflow, wherever you are. A sans serif typeface with 13 styles, available from Adobe Fonts for sync and web use. Adobe Fonts is the easiest way to bring.
In this article, we have selected 10 sans-serif fonts from the Google Font library that are similar to Open Sans and can be used as a replacement. All these sans-serif fonts are available in more than one weight and can be easily embedded in a website from Google Font. We have included a preview using the regular weight (400) for all the fonts listed below. To make it easier for you to compare them with Open Sans, we are including a similar preview for it:
Open Sans
by Steve Matteson available in 10 styles
Free Open Sans Alternatives from Google Fonts
The Google Font library offers a large variety of fonts including serif, sans-serif, display, handwriting and mono-space. Open sans is a sans-serif font and thus we are listing below popular sans-serif fonts available from Google Fonts, which add similar professional and clean feel to the text.
Nunito Sans
by Vernon Adams & Jacques Le Bailly available in 14 styles
PT Sans
Font Open Sans For Mac
by ParaType available in 4 styles
Roboto
by Christian Robertson available in 12 styles
Source Sans Pro
by Paul D. Hunt available in 12 styles
Work Sans
by Wei Huang available in 9 styles
Arimo
by Steve Matteson available in 4 styles
Lato
by Łukasz Dziedzic available in 10 styles
Merriweather Sans
by Sorkin Type available in 8 styles
Montserrat
by Julieta Ulanovsky available in 18 styles
Muli
Open Sans Font For Mac Free
by Vernon Adams available in 14 styles
System Font Stack as Open Sans Alternative
If you don’t want to load an additional web font, then a default system font stack similar to the one given below can also be used in your CSS to provide a good reading experience to your website visitors. This font stack ensures that the default sans-serif font available on different devices is automatically picked and used to render the text of your website.
The benefit of using the system font stack presented above is that it doesn’t require additional web request before rendering the text, moreover since each system optimizes the rendering of the default system font you get a nice reading experience on different devices. You can read more about using the system font stack in this Smashing Magazine’s article.
Do note that using a system font stack would mean that the text would render with different typeface on different devices. This might create problems in case the user interface is dependent on exact size of the text. A system font stack is also not recommended if you need a uniform typeface across your website on different devices for the purpose of branding.
Additional Resources
Fonts play a vital role in web design and understanding the font psychology will help you choose from the many different typefaces available. Next you might want to learn how to combine different fonts together.
If you are looking for fonts other than sans-serif fonts the following links will help:
Lastly, you may need these tools to identify fonts used in websites and apps.