Open Sans font

Open Sans is a Google Font sans-serif family, free for commercial use on Google Fonts. Works for product UI, marketing sites, and modern SaaS brand kits.

Sans serif · Google Fonts · Commercial free

Open Sans

Use in playground

Open Sans is a Google Font sans-serif family, free for commercial use on Google Fonts. Works for product UI, marketing sites, and modern SaaS brand kits.

Weight 400

The quick brown fox

Weight 500

The quick brown fox

Weight 600

The quick brown fox

Weight 700

The quick brown fox

Character set

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Display sample

Build your brand kit with Open Sans

Body sample

Use Open Sans in landing pages, dashboards, and DESIGN.md exports. Pair it with a complementary body font for readable paragraphs and UI labels.

Popular pairings

Open Sans + Oswald

Embed code

Copy the snippet for your stack — same pattern as Google Fonts, ready for production sites and AI agent repos.

HTML link tag

html

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" />
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin />
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet" />

CSS @import

css

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap');

body {
  font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}

CSS font-family

css

.font-open-sans {
  font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}

Next.js next/font/google

typescript

import { Open_Sans } from "next/font/google";

const font = Open_Sans({
  subsets: ["latin"],
  weight: ["400", "500", "600", "700"],
  variable: "--font-open-sans",
});

export default function RootLayout({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
  return (
    <html lang="en" className={font.variable}>
      <body>{children}</body>
    </html>
  );
}

Tailwind CSS

css

@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  --font-open-sans: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}

/* Usage: class="font-[family-name:var(--font-open-sans)]" */

DESIGN.md snippet

markdown

## Typography

- **Headline font:** Open Sans (Google Fonts)
- **CSS stack:** 'Open Sans', sans-serif
- **Weights:** 400;500;600;700

```html
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet" />
```

Best for

UI dashboards
Marketing sites
App navigation
Body copy