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 character repertoire contains 897 glyphs, covering the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets with a wide range of diacritics.
A new family name is the direction they chose." Unicode support Open Sans isn't really 'extended' so that wasn't really an option either. Explaining the different name, Matteson has said "Droid was intentionally narrow for mobile screens but it didn't have 'narrow' in the name. Development Īccording to Google, it was developed with an "upright stress, open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance" and is "optimized for legibility across print, web, and mobile interfaces." Its design is similar to that of Matteson's Droid Sans, created as the first user interface font for Android phones, but with wider characters and the inclusion of italic variants. Used in WordPress 3.8 which was released on December 12, 2013. It is the official font of the UK's Labour, Co-operative, and Liberal Democrat parties. Open Sans is used in some of Google's web pages as well as its print and web advertisements. Open Sans is popular in flat design-style web design. In March 2021, the family was updated to a variable font family, including Hebrew characters. As of July 2018 it is the second most served font on Google Fonts, with over four billion views per day on more than 20 million websites. Because it belongs to the humanist genre of sans-serif typefaces, it has a true italic. It is based on his previous Droid Sans design, designed for Android mobile devices, but slightly wider.įeaturing 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.
Open Sans is an open source humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, commissioned by Google and released in 2011. For an illustrated counterpart of this list that shows a sample of each font, see A Guide to Cloud Fonts in Microsoft Office 365, created by Julie Terberg, presentation designer and owner of Terberg Design.SIL Open Font License, Apache License 2.0 (before March 2021)
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