The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Open Sans
A free alternative to Frutiger.
About Open Sans
- Designer
- Steve Matteson
- Released
- 2010
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 3 paid font pages
Open Sans is also a free alternative to…
- Frutiger → Steve Matteson's humanist workhorse. Open apertures and generous x-height share Frutiger's wayfinding DNA — the obvious pick when broad public legibility (rather than typographic personality) is the brief.
- Gill Sans → Steve Matteson's humanist workhorse. Open apertures and generous x-height share Gill Sans's wayfinding-readable DNA — the obvious neutral pick when you need humanist warmth without the stylistic specificity of Gill.
- Proxima Nova → The workhorse Google Fonts alternative — broader humanist proportions than Proxima Nova but the same neutrality and screen-readability. Look here when corporate-safe is the brief.
Display + body that work together
Letters that hold their nerve
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Modern · Editorial Open Sans + Source Serif 4
The shape of a working week
A pairing is a relationship: one voice speaks first, the other answers, and the contrast between them sets the tone for the whole page.
Editorial · Modern Playfair Display + Open Sans