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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Benton_Sans/1crmyN5Y">Benton Sans</a> – another commercial Benton revival, optimised for various weights, widths and optical masters for various sizes of text</li> <li><a href="/facts/Trade_Gothic/FEFofI1e">Trade Gothic</a> – Linotype's competing design</li></ul> <h3>Adobe's open source family</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Source_Code_Pro/Rtz1gRUB">Source Code Pro</a>, the second member of Adobe's open source family, a monospaced sans serif</li> <li><a href="/facts/Source_Serif/aj4uFCAC">Source Serif</a>, the third member of Adobe's open source family</li> <li><a href="/facts/Source_Han_Sans/mb8zmPYj">Source Han Sans</a>, the fourth member of Adobe's open source family and the first to include <a href="/facts/CJK_characters/TGz9tR4C">CJK characters</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Source_Han_Serif/oLL1SUIk">Source Han Serif</a>, the last member of Adobe's open source family and includes CJK characters</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Source Sans Pro. <ul><li><a href="https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/source-sans">Source Sans Pro</a> at Adobe</li> <li><a href="https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-sans/">Source Sans Pro specimen</a> on <a href="/facts/GitHub/n1hNCsc3">GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans">GitHub project page</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Comparing 5b44992...1cac893". adobe-fonts/source-sans. Adobe Inc. 21 January 2021 – via GitHub. <a href="https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans/compare/5b44992...1cac893" target="_blank">https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans/compare/5b44992...1cac893</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Paul, Ryan (3 August 2012). "Adobe releases Source Sans Pro, a new open source font". Ars Technica. Retrieved 6 November 2016. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/adobe-releases-source-sans-pro-a-new-open-source-font/" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/adobe-releases-source-sans-pro-a-new-open-source-font/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Hunt, Paul D. (2 August 2012). "Source Sans Pro: Adobe's first open source type family". Adobe Typekit Blog. Adobe Systems Incorporated. Retrieved 28 June 2014. <a href="http://blog.typekit.com/2012/08/02/source-sans-pro/" target="_blank">http://blog.typekit.com/2012/08/02/source-sans-pro/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Gilbertson, Scott (3 August 2012). "Source Sans Pro: Adobe's First Open Source Type Family". Webmonkey. Wired. Retrieved 28 June 2014. <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/08/adobe-dives-into-the-open-source-font-world-with-source-sans-pro/" target="_blank">http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/08/adobe-dives-into-the-open-source-font-world-with-source-sans-pro/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Rugen, Chris. "Source Sans review". Typographica. Retrieved 11 July 2015. <a href="http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/source-sans/" target="_blank">http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/source-sans/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Variable Fonts — Source Sans Variable". <a href="https://v-fonts.com/fonts/source-sans-variable" target="_blank">https://v-fonts.com/fonts/source-sans-variable</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Hunt, Paul D. (2 August 2012). "Source Sans Pro: Adobe's first open source type family". Adobe Typekit Blog. Adobe Systems Incorporated. Retrieved 28 June 2014. <a href="http://blog.typekit.com/2012/08/02/source-sans-pro/" target="_blank">http://blog.typekit.com/2012/08/02/source-sans-pro/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Source Sans Pro: Adobe's first open source type family". TypeKit. Retrieved 30 September 2014. <a href="http://blog.typekit.com/2012/08/02/source-sans-pro/" target="_blank">http://blog.typekit.com/2012/08/02/source-sans-pro/</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Brown, Tim. "Selecting Typefaces for Body Text". Typekit Practice. Adobe Systems. Retrieved 28 July 2018. 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. <a href="https://practice.typekit.com/lesson/selecting-typefaces-for-body-text/" target="_blank">https://practice.typekit.com/lesson/selecting-typefaces-for-body-text/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>