Source Sans

{{Short description|Sans-serif typeface family}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}

{{Infobox typeface

| image = SourceSansPro-sample.svg

| name = Source Sans

| style = Sans-serif

| classifications = Grotesque, Humanist

| creationdate = 2012

| creator = Paul D. Hunt

| website = {{URL|github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans}}

| latest_release_version = v3.052

| latest_release_date = {{release date and age|2023|03|30}}

| foundry = Adobe Inc.

| license = SIL Open Font License

| latin = yes

| greek = yes

| cyrillic = yes

| based_on = {{ubl|Franklin Gothic | News Gothic}}

| variations = Source Han Sans

}}

Source Sans (known as Source Sans Pro before 2021){{Cite web |date=21 January 2021 |title=Comparing 5b44992...1cac893 |url=https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans/compare/5b44992...1cac893 |website=adobe-fonts/source-sans |publisher=Adobe Inc |via=GitHub}} is a sans-serif typeface created by Paul D. Hunt, released by Adobe in 2012.{{Cite web| last = Paul| first = Ryan| title = Adobe releases Source Sans Pro, a new open source font| work = Ars Technica| access-date = 2016-11-06| date = 2012-08-03| url = https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/adobe-releases-source-sans-pro-a-new-open-source-font/}} It is the first open-source font family from Adobe, distributed under the SIL Open Font License.{{cite web | url=http://blog.typekit.com/2012/08/02/source-sans-pro/ | title=Source Sans Pro: Adobe's first open source type family | last=Hunt | first=Paul D. | date=2 August 2012 | website=Adobe Typekit Blog | publisher=Adobe Systems Incorporated | access-date=28 June 2014}}{{cite web | url=http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/08/adobe-dives-into-the-open-source-font-world-with-source-sans-pro/ | title=Source Sans Pro: Adobe's First Open Source Type Family | last=Gilbertson | first=Scott | date=3 August 2012 | website=Webmonkey | publisher=Wired | access-date=28 June 2014}}

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.{{cite web|last1=Rugen|first1=Chris|title=Source Sans review|url=http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/source-sans/|website=Typographica|access-date=11 July 2015}} It is available in seven weights (Regular, ExtraLight, Light, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Black) in upright and italic styles, and is also available as a variable font with continuous weight values from 200 to 900.{{cite web|url=https://v-fonts.com/fonts/source-sans-variable|title=Variable Fonts — Source Sans Variable}} The typeface has wide language support for Latin script, including Western and Eastern European languages, Vietnamese, pinyin romanization of Chinese, and Navajo. 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.{{cite web|title=Source Sans Pro: Adobe's first open source type family|url=http://blog.typekit.com/2012/08/02/source-sans-pro/|website=TypeKit|access-date=30 September 2014}}{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Tim |title=Selecting Typefaces for Body Text |url=https://practice.typekit.com/lesson/selecting-typefaces-for-body-text/ |website=Typekit Practice |publisher=Adobe Systems |access-date=28 July 2018 |quote=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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