Source Sans

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Short description: Sans-serif typeface family
Source Sans
SourceSansPro-sample.svg
CategorySans-serif
ClassificationGrotesque, Humanist
Designer(s)Paul D. Hunt
FoundryAdobe Inc.
Date created2012
LicenseSIL Open Font License
Design based on
  • Franklin Gothic
  • News Gothic
VariationsSource Han Sans
Websitegithub.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans-pro
Latest release versionv3.046
Latest release dateJuly 14, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-07-14)

Source Sans (known as Source Sans Pro before 2021)[1] is a sans-serif typeface created by Paul D. Hunt, released by Adobe in 2012.[2] It is the first open-source font family from Adobe, distributed under the SIL Open Font License.[3][4]

The typeface is inspired by the forms of the American Type Founders' gothics by Morris Fuller Benton, such as News Gothic, Lightline Gothic and Franklin Gothic, modified with both a larger x-height and character width and more humanist-influenced italic forms.[5] It is available in six weights (Regular, ExtraLight, Light, Semibold, Bold, Black) in upright and italic styles, and is also available as a variable font with continuous weight values from 200 to 900.[6] The typeface has wide language support for Latin script, including Western and Eastern European languages, Vietnamese, pinyin romanization of Chinese, and Navajo.[3] Adobe's training material highlights it as having a more consistent colour on the page than the rather condensed News Gothic it is based on.[7][8]

See also

  • Benton Sans – another commercial Benton revival, optimised for various weights, widths and optical masters for various sizes of text
  • Trade Gothic – Linotype's competing design

Adobe's open source family

  • Source Code Pro, the second member of Adobe's open source family, a monospaced sans serif
  • Source Serif, the third member of Adobe's open source family
  • Source Han Sans, the fourth member of Adobe's open source family and the first to include CJK characters
  • Source Han Serif, the last member of Adobe's open source family and includes CJK characters

References

  1. "Comparing 5b44992...1cac893". Adobe Inc. 21 January 2021. https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans/compare/5b44992...1cac893. 
  2. Paul, Ryan (2012-08-03). "Adobe releases Source Sans Pro, a new open source font". Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/adobe-releases-source-sans-pro-a-new-open-source-font/. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Hunt, Paul D. (2 August 2012). "Source Sans Pro: Adobe's first open source type family". Adobe Systems Incorporated. http://blog.typekit.com/2012/08/02/source-sans-pro/. 
  4. Gilbertson, Scott (3 August 2012). "Source Sans Pro: Adobe's First Open Source Type Family". Wired. http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/08/adobe-dives-into-the-open-source-font-world-with-source-sans-pro/. 
  5. Rugen, Chris. "Source Sans review". http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/source-sans/. 
  6. "Variable Fonts — Source Sans Variable". https://v-fonts.com/fonts/source-sans-variable. 
  7. "Source Sans Pro: Adobe's first open source type family". http://blog.typekit.com/2012/08/02/source-sans-pro/. 
  8. Brown, Tim. "Selecting Typefaces for Body Text". Adobe Systems. https://practice.typekit.com/lesson/selecting-typefaces-for-body-text/. "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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