Source Sans Pro is a sans serif

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created by

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, released by

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in 2012. It is the first

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font family from Adobe, distributed under the

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. The typeface is inspired by the forms of the American Type Founders' gothics by Morris Fuller Benton, such as

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, Lightline Gothic and

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, modified with both a larger

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and character width and more humanist-influenced italic forms. It is available in six weights (Regular, ExtraLight, Light, 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

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on the page than the rather condensed News Gothic it is based on. __NOTOC__

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Source Sans Pro specimen
on

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See also

Adobe's open source family

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