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Font Pairing · Sans-serif

Open Sans

A humanist sans commissioned for Android before becoming one of the most widely deployed webfonts of the last decade. Friendly, upright and extremely legible at small sizes.

License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 View specimen & source →
Body textLong-form articlesMarketing sites

Live specimen

Type your own text · click a weight to preview it.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 &@#%?!

Pairs well with

Open Sans as the headline, paired with a complementary body font.

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Similar fonts

Alternatives with a comparable feel to Open Sans.

Lato
Sans-serif
PT Serif
Serif
Nunito
Sans-serif

More Sans-serif fonts

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Use it in code

Click to copy. Served from a public CDN — nothing to download or self-host.