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| Category | Sans-serif |
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| Classification | Grotesque,Humanist |
| Designer | Paul D. Hunt |
| Foundry | Adobe Inc. |
| Date created | 2012 |
| License | SIL Open Font License |
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| Variations | Source Han Sans |
| Website | github |
| Latest release version | v3.052 |
| Latest release date | March 30, 2023; 2 years ago (2023-03-30) |
Source Sans (known asSource Sans Pro before 2021)[1] is asans-seriftypeface created byPaul D. Hunt, released byAdobe in 2012.[2] It is the firstopen-source font family from Adobe, distributed under theSIL Open Font License.[3][4]
The typeface is inspired by the forms of theAmerican Type Founders' gothics byMorris Fuller Benton, such asNews Gothic,Lightline Gothic andFranklin Gothic, modified with both a largerx-height and character width and more humanist-influenced italic forms.[5] It is available in seven weights (Regular, ExtraLight, Light, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Black) in upright and italic styles, and is also available as avariable font with continuous weight values from 200 to 900.[6] The typeface has wide language support forLatin script, including Western and Eastern European languages,Vietnamese,pinyin romanization of Chinese, andNavajo.[3] Adobe's training material highlights it as having a more consistentcolour on the page than the rather condensed News Gothic it is based on.[7][8]
Source Sans has an obviousness and toughness similar to News Gothic, but with a much more even color. Its letterforms are wider and more widely spaced, more modest than monumental, which makes sense in a body text setting....News Gothic is not a good choice of body text typeface. Certain letter combinations are very dense, and the overall color is not even.
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