Source Sans Pro
Designed By
Paul D. Hunt
12 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Source Sans Pro · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
12 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Source Sans Pro ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Password must include 1 digit
A Clear Hierarchy
Source Sans Pro · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
12 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Extra Light200
Password must include 1 digit
Extra Light Italic200
Password must include 1 digit
Light300
Password must include 1 digit
Light Italic300
Password must include 1 digit
Regular400
Password must include 1 digit
Italic400
Password must include 1 digit
Semi Bold600
Password must include 1 digit
Semi Bold Italic600
Password must include 1 digit
Bold700
Password must include 1 digit
Bold Italic700
Password must include 1 digit
Black900
Password must include 1 digit
Black Italic900
Password must include 1 digit
Switch on ss04 and the capital I grows serifs. In a serial number or a login hint, where a capital I can land next to a lowercase l, that is the fix we would make first. It is 1 of 7 stylistic sets in the roman styles of Source Sans Pro: ss01 takes the tail off the l, 2 more swap in a different a and g, ss05 slashes the zero, ss19 brings titling figures for use with capitals, and ss18 gives the ogonek the shape preferred for Athabaskan languages.
Adobe released it in 2012 as its first open-source type, a Paul D. Hunt design meant from the outset for software screens. He started from American gothic type of the News Gothic sort and gave the lowercase more height. Google Fonts listed it from July of that year, and the family was later renamed Source Sans 3.
What is here is release 2.045 of the romans and 1.095 of the italics, 12 styles in all, 6 weights from Extra Light at 200 to Black at 900 with an italic for each. The 2 halves are not equal. A roman covers 1,336 characters, Latin and Vietnamese plus full Greek and Cyrillic, and it has small caps. The italic covers 872, Latin and Vietnamese only, and has no small caps, so a Russian or Greek phrase that needs emphasis will have to go bold. Plan for that before a multilingual manual is half laid out.
Where the 2 overlap they behave alike. Old style and proportional figures, fractions, superscripts and subscripts work in both, and the italic keeps close to the roman’s width, less than 3% narrower across a line, so putting a phrase in italic barely moves the line breaks.
Semi Bold is the weight we’d give to buttons and table headers.
Characters & Figures
1,336 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Source Sans Pro
12 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 994 KB ↓- Version
- 2.045
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/source-sans-pro-3/source-sans-pro-3.css">
body {
font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
Source Sans Pro Heading · Source Sans Pro Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.