Source Sans in the context of "Sans-serif"

Play Trivia Questions online!

or

Skip to study material about Source Sans in the context of "Sans-serif"

Ad spacer

⭐ Core Definition: Source Sans

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

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. 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. 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.

↓ Menu

>>>PUT SHARE BUTTONS HERE<<<
In this Dossier

Source Sans in the context of Arabic numerals

The Arabic numerals are ten symbols (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9) used for writing numbers. The term often also implies a positional notation number with a decimal base, in particular when contrasted with Roman numerals. However, the symbols are also used to write numbers in other bases, as well as non-numerical information such as trademarks or license plate identifiers.

They are also called Western Arabic numerals, Western digits, European digits, ASCII digits, Latin digits or Ghubār numerals to differentiate them from other types of digits. Hindu–Arabic numerals is used due to positional notation (but not these digits) originating in India. The Oxford English Dictionary uses lowercase Arabic numerals while using the fully capitalized term Arabic Numerals for Eastern Arabic numerals. In contemporary society, the terms digits, numbers, and numerals often implies only these symbols, although it can only be inferred from context.

↑ Return to Menu

Source Sans in the context of Names of numbers in English

English number words include numerals and various words derived from them, as well as a large number of words borrowed from other languages.

↑ Return to Menu