Open licence · Sans serif
Source Sans 3
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Sans 3 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Sans 3.
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 Source Sans 3, 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 Source Sans 3, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Mada webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Mada.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Varta webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Varta.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Assistant webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Assistant.
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What $39 buys →Source Sans 3 as a free alternative to
Source Sans 3 is suggested on 24 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.
- Base 9 & 12 commonly substituted
- Berthold Corporate S commonly substituted
- Corporate S commonly substituted
- Freight Sans commonly substituted
- Myriad commonly substituted
- Panno Text commonly substituted
- Seravek commonly substituted
- Whitney commonly substituted
- Action Text same classification
- Atlas same classification
- Berlingske Sans same classification
- Corpid same classification
- Darby Sans same classification
- Effra same classification
- Fedra Sans same classification
- FF Meta same classification
- FF Unit same classification
- Frutiger same classification
- Gemeli same classification
- Greta Sans same classification
- Neue Frutiger same classification
- Segoe UI same classification
- Texta same classification
- TheSans same classification
In the app
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