Open licence · Sans serif
Open Sans
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Open Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Open Sans.
Measured character
Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.
Fonts similar to Open Sans, measured
Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the sans serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Open Sans, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Manrope webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Manrope.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The ABeeZee webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not ABeeZee.
These are the first 3 of 992 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.
What $39 buys →Open Sans as a free alternative to
Open Sans is suggested on 12 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.
- Calibri commonly substituted
- Corpid commonly substituted
- FF Meta commonly substituted
- Frutiger commonly substituted
- Neue Frutiger commonly substituted
- Segoe UI commonly substituted
- Syntax commonly substituted
- TheSans commonly substituted
- Verdana commonly substituted
- Berthold Corporate S same classification
- Corporate S same classification
- Myriad same classification
In the app
Search the whole open catalogue by name, category and measured character, preview every result in your own words, and save it to a Board. Open the app — the shelf, search and the first three results of any search are free.