Source Sans Pro font

2 Feb

About this font.

Paul D. Hunt designed Source Sans Pro, a sans serif typeface that was published by Adobe in 2012. The SIL Open Font License is used to distribute Adobe's first open-source font family.

The design is based on Morris Fuller Benton's American Type Founders' gothics, such as News Gothic, Lightline Gothic, and Franklin Gothic, but with a wider x-height and character width, as well as more humanist-influenced italic forms. It's available in upright and italic forms in six weights (Regular, ExtraLight, Light, Semibold, Bold, Black), as well as a variable font with continuous weight values ranging from 200 to 900. The typeface supports a broad range of Latin script languages, including Western and Eastern European languages, Vietnamese, Chinese pinyin Romanization, and Navajo. According to Adobe's training materials, it has a more uniform colour on the page than the condensed News Gothic on which it is based.