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Open Sans

Open Sans is an open source humanist sans-serif typeface that was designed by Steve Matteson under commission from Google. It was released in 2011 and is based on his earlier design called Droid Sans, which was specifically created for Android mobile devices but with slight modifications to its width.

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Category
Sans-serif
Classification
Humanist
Date created
2010
Date released
2011
Design based on
Droid Sans
Designer
Steve Matteson

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Open Sans

Nodes38
Edges37
Triples53
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.052632
Components1

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Open Sans

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related to Derivatives · 10
Open Sans → Adobe Fonts, Bold, Extra Bold, It, Light, Medium, Medium Italic, Normal, Numbers, Semi-Bold
related to Development · 8
Open Sans → According, Android, Droid, Explaining, Google, Its, Matteson, Matteson's Droid Sans
related to Open Sans Condensed · 8
Open Sans → Adobe Fonts, As, Extra Bold, GitHub, Google Fonts, Open Sans Condensed, Regular, Semibold
related to Open Sans Soft · 6
Open Sans → In, Like Open Serif, Matteson, Matteson Typographics, On March, Open Sans Soft
related to Use · 5
Open Sans → Co-operative, Google's, It, Liberal Democrat, UK's Labour
related to External links · 3
Open Sans → GitHub, Google Fonts Open SansOpen, Sans
is a · 2
Open Sans → open source humanist sans-serif typeface that was designed by Steve Matteson under commission from Google, second most widely used font on Google Fonts
Category · 1
Open Sans → Sans-serif
Classification · 1
Open Sans → Humanist
Date created · 1
Open Sans → 2010

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open sans font matteson google released serif typeface droid fonts 2021 humanist sans-serif also design march italic used steve created

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Open SansCategorySans-serif1.00infobox
Open SansClassificationHumanist1.00infobox
Open SansDate created20101.00infobox
Open SansDate released20111.00infobox
Open SansDesign based onDroid Sans1.00infobox
Open SansDesignerSteve Matteson1.00infobox
Open SansFoundryAscender Corporation1.00infobox
Open SansLicenseSIL Open Font License, Apache License 2.0 (before March 2021)1.00infobox
Open SansWebsitefonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans1.00infobox
Open Sansis aopen source humanist sans-serif typeface that was designed by Steve Matteson under commission from Google0.90text
Open Sansis asecond most widely used font on Google Fonts0.90text
Tel Aviv University in its 2016 rebrandinginstance ofThe extension font went on to become popular and to be used by prominent institutions0.80text

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