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Open licence · Sans serif

Open Sans

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Open Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Open Sans.

Open Sansthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

tall x-heightwidemoderate contrast

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.

Manropeclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.

Work Sansclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

The ABeeZee webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not ABeeZee.

ABeeZeeclose on every measure

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.

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.