Open Sans Font
Lihuel Harding
I updated to the new LO6: the process just silently removed my Open Sans font. Note that Open Sans was a font that I installed manually, it was not placed on my system by a previous LO release, in my case.
Now, I tried to open an old document containing text featuring Open Sans font and it is simply replaced with Open Sans semi-bold! The latter is a font weight that I manually installed as well. It probably survived the LO update because this weight was not part of the LO font bundle.
First, LO uninstall (and re-installation) should not remove system fonts without prompting. In my case, Open Sans was a font that I installed manually, now it is silently removed by a software update. This is far from ideal.
Still, the point I really want to highlight here is that LibreOffice 5.4 uninstaller (and any future LO uninstallers) should not remove fonts from the system without prompting. This is not a nice practice for the people who use those fonts with other software: suddenly, there are gone and the users might not relate the root-cause with LO update.
Google Fonts collaborates with type designers, foundries and the design community worldwide to create a directory of open source fonts. The fonts are free to use, making beautiful type accessible to anyone for any project.
I recommend going to Google Fonts and downloading it from there. The package you get from them directly comes with both variable and static (use the static ones.. do not load both), and are v3.0 (Adobe is still serving the v1.0 versions).
Thank you. I just had this problem and this worked for me. I can't remember if I had to restart my computer too but it won't hurt. Instances where I had already used the available weights of the font did go a bit weird in places so I did have to change these to the "new" installs of the static fonts. All working well now.
The "Adobe Fonts" site (and the "Adobe Fonts" tab in the Creative Cloud Application) does distinguish between the "Open Sans" types (There are 10 fonts in this family in total) and "Open Sans Condensed" types (There are 3 fonts in this family in total). They all seem to be grouped correctly and all of them are activated.
In Indesign, the Fonts selection list also lists these fonts in their correct groups. But when I open the "Find More" tab in the Fonts selection list then I see that two of the "Open Sans Condensed" type fonts are being listed in the "Open Sans" type group.
Whenever Indesign is updated and I go to one of my old manual projects then Indesign loses some or all of the Open Sans Condensed fonts and I have to re-assign them. I've been dealing with this problem for about 7 years now. I switched to Framemaker 2 years ago but sometimes I have to open up one of the old manual files created in Indesign and deal with this issue.
Upon starting QGIS (without loading in any data and/or projects), it produces an error stating "Open Sans font installation failed". Upon opening an existing project the error pops up multiple times as well.I would imagine this relates to an error with that specific font, but since the error already pops up when starting up QGIS without any data, I wonder where this font is being used. This error is persistent through different versions of QGIS (3.32 & 3.36).
it worked for me after i have downloaded the open sans fonts from google and installed it and restarting QGIS. the file is around 5MB and you will have to extract and install it by opening the font or copy and paste it under fonts folder in C/windows.the link is: =open+sans
But that only works if he has the full font family enabled. Otherwise the browser will try to emulate it - as @malachiman said. It should work with the BSS settings and open sans. It has all types of enabled.
There is almost no website, app or digital product that exists without text. And typography is the clothes your words wear. It sets the tone of voice or the vibe for your project. And as Jason Pamental said in a talk Type is never neutral.
Absolutely, its five weights with corresponding italics make it suitable for a range of applications. But do you really need all these characters and styles? For most projects you might be good with regular, bold, maybe italic. So remember, less might be more.
There are a lot of other fonts out there, some also free and open source, that are an equal good choice. Take a look at my list where to get good fonts. I really want to encourage you to look at the tiny foundries, distributors and type designers that license them for a reasonable price, just to mention one of my favorites like DJR, fontfabric, latinotype or futurefonts.
I hope I could show you why your font choice matters and how you can make a difference in looking beyond the popular selections. Is there an omnipresent typeface you are you sick of? Leave it in the comments below!
So you are opinionated. Fine. Please share, what you are using on this very page. Here when I had read all the way through, I realized, that whatever you are using for this page is rather bland too, except for the z-logo top-left.
I like Open Sans, for reading even more than Noto. Noto Sans is very good for devices with little space, but when I put it next to the Segoe UI on the desktop there is a big difference in readability.
How would you try to achieve that balance between creative/inspired typography and (international) content accessibility? With limited resources and no knowledge of non-Latin scripts, I have no option but to trust that the most-popular typefaces will look good for all of these languages!
I went looking for Open Sans as I had seen it mentioned as a dyslexia-friendly font so I could download it and try it out in the documents I create. Given the purpose of my search, I was a bit thrown that one of the top results was this post imploring me to stop using it. Upon reading it (which was non-trival), I saw that the reasons you have stated essentially ignore one of its main strengths.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and perspective, Matthias, and for describing it so well. I understand that this all might be very challenging to you. And as I wrote, Open Sans is not a bad typeface. I totally get that it is very helpful and easier to read than others. But regarding branding and making your project memorable, I want to encourage people to look for less often used typefaces.
The issue with readability under certain conditions is super important. And I will definitely add more content to accessibility in the future. Your link is also helpful here. However, in some cases I think switching to reader mode, where the styling of the text is replaced by your custom settings, would be best. But there seems to be some kind of friction between branding, and accessibility. A good topic to dive in to more.
I agree, Dave. Accessibility is super important. And yes, it is a good typeface, also for that. I was mostly referring to branding aspects and there it is not beneficial. But you could always combine it with something for headings or other display text to stand out more, if you have to use Open Sans.
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Hi farinspace
Welcome to the forum.
Are you using the release build version of Designer? (1.5.5) if so, please try downloading the latest beta here and let me know if you have the same issue.
For what it is worth, I just downloaded & installed the Open Sans fonts from +Sans using Font Book to install them. All typefaces seem to be working fine with Affinity Designer 1.5.5, including SemiBold. No duplicates, no "?" when I select any of them, etc.
@farinspace, I suggest using Font Book to check for duplicate fonts & to validate the Open Sans ones you have installed. It sounds to me like this is either font corruption issue or a duplicates conflict. Unless you need to use a more advanced font manager, it is usually best to use Font Book to manage your fonts, particularly for finding duplicates or deleting or installing them. That way you do not need to look in the different directories, which to answer one of your questions can be in any of them mentioned in the Apple support document you linked to.
I'm finding that after saving and reloading the document that the correct font is showing but the Style (bold/light etc) is blank. The result is that it seems to use a default sans font throughout the entire document.
This is happening on two different PC's and I've not exchanged the file between them. I was using Skyfonts to sync from google if that makes a difference but I uninstalled that a few weeks ago and I'm still having the same problems.
Although the client is a startup, they want to look experienced. So even though Neue Helvetica is used in a lot of brands, I think the client is better of with a familiar look than with an experimental appearance.
Now for the running text on the website, I want to use a Google-Font for faster performance. I think that for mobile devices a sans serif would be best. Open Sans or PT Sans look both very similar to Helvetica. Is that good or bad, if they look similar?
This is very much an opinion question. My answer is that it should be OK: both are popular. Although traditionally people advised against pairing two different sans-serifs, in the web age people are used to a sans for body text. The old print design "use a sans for heading, serif for text" thinking is outdated now.
My one concern would be that Open Sans is a free font and everyone uses it. It can create a cheap vibe of "we can't afford to pay for a premium font". I don't know your budget or how much a premium impression matters to you, and I know we all gotta eat, but you might prefer something like Covik Sans or Freight Sans.
I've been banging my head against a wall for the last few hours trying to use the Google Open Sans font WITHOUT the browser having to download it from Google each time. I have tried including the @font-face directive with the font-family 'Open Sans' using local url for the .woff and .woff2 formats - but my ASPNETZERO pages are always going to themes.googleusercontent.com to download three .woff files.
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