Open Sans [SEP] designer
Open Sans
Open Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson and commissioned by Google. Featuring wide apertures on many letters and a large x-height (tall lower-case letters), the typeface is highly legible on screen and at small sizes. It belongs to the humanist genre of sans-serif typefaces, with a true italic. It was released in 2011.
As of July 2018 it is the second most served font on Google Fonts, with over four billion views per day on
a wide range of diacritics. In January 2014 Israeli type designer Yanek Iontef released an extension font covering the Hebrew alphabet with support for Niqqud (but not Cantillation marks) for early access. The extension font went on to become popular and to be used by prominent institutions such as Tel Aviv University in its 2016 rebranding, and by the Haaretz website.
Derivatives.
Open Sans has five weights (300 Light, 400 Normal, Semi-Bold 600, Bold 700 and Extra Bold 800), each of them with