Open Sans
Open Sans lists ten script subsets, more than 99% of the sans serifs. Only 2% of today’s sans serifs were added to the library before it. It offers six weights, each with an italic, which is more styles than 83% of the sans serifs have.
| Measure, per 1,000 em | Open Sans | Median of 732 sans serifs |
|---|---|---|
| Ascender (top of d) | 760 | 740 |
| Cap height (top of H) | 714 | 702 |
| x-height (top of x) | 535 | 519 |
| Descender (foot of p) | −239 | −213 |
| x-height ÷ cap height | 0.75 | 0.70 |
| Average lowercase width | 522 | 522 |
| Ink coverage, a–z | 38.1% | 40.2% |
Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot
X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders
Just below: Asimovian, Martel Sans; just above: Oxygen, Noto Kufi Arabic; level with: Days One, Numans
Weights and styles
One variable file per style covers every weight from 300 to 800.
| Axis | Tag | Range | In the library |
|---|---|---|---|
| Width | wdth | 75 to 100 | 99 families |
| Weight | wght | 300 to 800 | 545 families |
ScriptsFamilies sharing each subset
- Latin1,843
- Latin Extended1,525
- Vietnamese532
- Cyrillic306
- Cyrillic Extended243
- Greek128
- Greek Extended76
- Math73
- Symbols69
- Hebrew62
Inside the file
In the measured file: 1,150 glyphs and 1,010 mapped Unicode characters; 22 OpenType feature tags.
Declared features: old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, stylistic alternates, slashed zero and four stylistic sets.
Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em
Outside the sans serif class
Same designer
Steve Matteson is also credited on Arimo, Cousine and Tinos.
File: ofl/opensans, google/fonts 9862abc · font software © its authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 · method