Fonts

Open Sans

Free to use, from Google Fonts. The name and samples on this page are set in it.

Body text on
283 sites
Headings on
209 sites
Share of all homepages
3.2%
Top Hacker News articles
2.6% this week
In our crawl since
Sep 23, 2026
Earliest archive record
Feb 15, 2016

In use

Page titles from sites that set their text in Open Sans.

Share among the 7570 sites we can trace back to 2016Dashed lines before September 2026 are estimates from web archives. Solid lines are our weekly crawl. The chart follows a fixed set of 7570 sites, not every site in the rankings.
Show as table
PeriodSourceBody textHeadings
2016 Q1Web archive estimate, 1072 sites7.6%6.7%
2016 Q2Web archive estimate, 1810 sites8.9%7.8%
2016 Q3Web archive estimate, 186 sites8.6%8.6%
2016 Q4Web archive estimate, 584 sites7.9%7.0%
2017 Q1Web archive estimate, 492 sites7.7%6.7%
2017 Q2Web archive estimate, 1682 sites10%8.0%
2017 Q3Web archive estimate, 629 sites8.3%6.4%
2017 Q4Web archive estimate, 467 sites9.0%6.9%
2018 Q1Web archive estimate, 451 sites7.5%4.7%
2018 Q2Web archive estimate, 1970 sites9.6%7.6%
2018 Q3Web archive estimate, 2233 sites9.8%7.3%
2018 Q4Web archive estimate, 1376 sites8.6%6.3%
2019 Q1Web archive estimate, 2256 sites10%7.8%
2019 Q2Web archive estimate, 2857 sites11%8.5%
2019 Q3Web archive estimate, 2064 sites11%8.4%
2019 Q4Web archive estimate, 2297 sites10%8.1%
2020 Q1Web archive estimate, 2273 sites10.0%7.8%
2020 Q2Web archive estimate, 1919 sites9.7%7.8%
2020 Q3Web archive estimate, 1530 sites10%7.5%
2020 Q4Web archive estimate, 1473 sites9.5%7.0%
2021 Q1Web archive estimate, 1634 sites9.1%6.9%
2021 Q2Web archive estimate, 1333 sites8.4%5.9%
2021 Q3Web archive estimate, 2057 sites6.7%4.8%
2021 Q4Web archive estimate, 1750 sites7.5%5.8%
2022 Q1Web archive estimate, 2101 sites6.6%5.1%
2022 Q2Web archive estimate, 2374 sites6.0%4.6%
2022 Q3Web archive estimate, 1592 sites7.3%6.0%
2022 Q4Web archive estimate, 1090 sites7.1%5.7%
2023 Q1Web archive estimate, 1734 sites5.7%4.6%
2023 Q2Web archive estimate, 1631 sites5.7%4.8%
2023 Q3Web archive estimate, 2019 sites5.3%4.5%
2023 Q4Web archive estimate, 2074 sites5.5%4.3%
2024 Q1Web archive estimate, 1743 sites5.7%4.7%
2024 Q2Web archive estimate, 1201 sites4.5%3.6%
2024 Q3Web archive estimate, 1764 sites3.4%2.8%
2024 Q4Web archive estimate, 1490 sites3.8%3.1%
2025 Q1Web archive estimate, 1484 sites5.4%4.6%
2025 Q2Web archive estimate, 411 sites4.9%3.6%
2025 Q3Web archive estimate, 2422 sites3.3%2.6%
2025 Q4Web archive estimate, 2463 sites3.9%3.0%
2026 Q1Web archive estimate, 276 sites4.0%3.3%
2026 Q2Web archive estimate, 186 sites4.3%2.7%
2026 Q3Web archive estimate, 83 sites4.8%3.6%
Sep 27, 2026Our crawl, 6,305 sites3.8%2.8%
Oct 4, 2026Our crawl, 6,330 sites3.9%2.9%
Oct 11, 2026Our crawl, 6,302 sites3.8%2.9%
Oct 18, 2026Our crawl, 6,304 sites3.8%2.8%
Oct 25, 2026Our crawl, 6,249 sites3.7%2.8%
Nov 1, 2026Our crawl, 6,272 sites3.9%2.9%

By category

Paired with

How sites serve Open Sans
  • Google Fonts56%
  • Self-hosted37%
  • System fonts5.3%
  • Adobe Fonts1.7%

Switched to it

  1. bhphotovideo.com changed its body text from Segoe UI to Open Sans

  2. bhphotovideo.com changed its headings from Segoe UI to Open Sans

  3. datoric.com changed its headings from hero Font to Open Sans

  4. deere.com changed its headings from Inter to Open Sans

  5. usp.br changed its body text from Roboto to Open Sans

  6. cmu.edu changed its headings from Source Serif to Open Sans

  7. advano.io changed its body text from Montserrat to Open Sans

  8. advano.io changed its headings from Montserrat to Open Sans

  9. oregonstate.edu changed its headings from Stratum2Web to Open Sans

  10. blog.zarfhome.com changed its headings from Alegreya to Open Sans

  11. hdfc.bank.in changed its headings from OpenSans Extrabold to Open Sans

  12. otago.ac.nz changed its headings from Times New Roman to Open Sans

  13. robocurve.org changed its body text from Imagin to Open Sans

  14. www.bop.gov changed its headings from Arial to Open Sans

Switched away

  1. couchbase.com changed its body text from Open Sans to Inter

  2. couchbase.com changed its headings from Open Sans to Centra No2

  3. getpulse.in changed its body text from Open Sans to GD Sherpa

  4. getpulse.in changed its headings from Open Sans to GD Sherpa

  5. kvs.gov.in changed its body text from Open Sans to Noto Sans Devanagari

  6. kvs.gov.in changed its headings from Open Sans to Noto Sans Devanagari

  7. hdfc.bank.in changed its headings from Open Sans to OpenSans Extrabold

  8. sportingbet.bet.br changed its body text from Open Sans to Rawline

  9. sportingbet.bet.br changed its headings from Open Sans to Rawline

  10. datoric.com changed its headings from Open Sans to hero Font

  11. deere.com changed its headings from Open Sans to Inter

  12. quantierra.com changed its body text from Open Sans to Arial

  13. quantierra.com changed its headings from Open Sans to Dosis

  14. unschool.in changed its body text from Open Sans to Arial

  15. unschool.in changed its headings from Open Sans to Manrope

  16. up.nic.in changed its body text from Open Sans to Noto Sans

  17. up.nic.in changed its headings from Open Sans to Noto Sans

  18. cmu.edu changed its headings from Open Sans to Source Serif

Sites using Open Sans

SiteCategoryBodyHeadingsPlatform
abola.ptpopularOpen SansOpen Sans
academy.compopularOpen SansOpen Sans
acl.govgovernmentOpen SansOpen Sans
advano.iostartupsOpen SansOpen Sans
aeolservice.espopularOpen SansOpen SansWordPress
ahelwer.caindieOpen SansOpen Sans
aiinsurance.iostartupsOpen SansPicSee
alaska.govgovernmentOpen SansOpen Sans
amd.comenterpriseOpen SansKlavika
aniworld.topopularOpen SansOpen Sans
anylist.comstartupsOpen SansOpen Sans
apache.orgdevtoolsOpen SansMontserrat
aph.gov.augovernmentOpen SansOpen Sans
apolloshield.comstartupsMerriweatherOpen Sans
applyboard.comstartupsOpen SansMontserratWordPress
arabam.compopularOpen SansOpen Sans
arnaud-carre.github.ioindieOpen SansOpen Sans
astro.compopularOpen SansSource Sans
athenahq.aistartupsOpen SansSpace Grotesk
avocademy.comstartupsAssistantOpen SansShopify
bc.eduuniversitiesOpen SansOpen Sans
bearflagrobotics.comstartupsOpen SansOpen Sans
bellabeat.comstartupsRethink SansOpen SansWordPress
benjoffe.comindieOpen SansOpen Sans
berryai.comstartupsOpen SansLatoWebflow
bhphotovideo.comecommerceOpen SansOpen Sans
biobiochile.clpopularOpen SansOpen Sans
bisp.gov.pkpopularOpen SansOpen Sans
blog.alexellis.ioindieMerriweatherOpen SansNext.js
blog.zarfhome.comindieOpen SansOpen Sans
bloomtech.comstartupsOpen SansTitillium WebWebflow
boostrobotics.aistartupsOpen SansSairaNext.js
botbuilt.comstartupsOpen SansTofinoWordPress
bristol.ac.ukuniversitiesOpen SansSora
britishairways.comenterpriseOpen SansMylius ModernNext.js
buildzoom.comstartupsOpen SansOpen Sans
buypower.ngstartupsOpen SansOpen Sans
cancer.govgovernmentOpen SansPoppins
caniuse.comdevtoolsOpen SansOpen Sans
canlidoviz.compopularOpen SansOpen Sans
carnival.compopularOpen SansOpen Sans
cassandra.apache.orgdevtoolsOpen SansRed Hat Display
centauri-dreams.orgindieOpen SansOpen SansWordPress
chase.compopularOpen SansOpen SansNext.js
chelseatroy.comindiePT SerifOpen SansWordPress
clashofclans-layouts.compopularOpen SansOpen Sans
clickpetroleoegas.com.brpopularOpen SansOpen SansWordPress
clojure.orgdevtoolsOpen SansOpen SansWebflow
cmrsurgical.comstartupsOpen SansOpen SansWordPress
cmu.eduuniversitiesOpen SansOpen Sans