Designed for the signage at Charles de Gaulle Airport, to be read at a distance and at an angle. It became the lettering of hospitals, airports and public signs across Europe.
Download Source Sans 3, free ↗Google FontsFrutiger itself is licensed. Source Sans 3 is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.
01Set it yourself
Set in Source Sans 3Loading the face
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02Put it to work
Your words from the specimen, set in Source Sans 3 in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.
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We design identities, websites and campaigns for people who care how things feel. This is the paragraph your headline sits on, set in Source Sans 3.
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Tip. Headline in Source Sans 3, standing in for Frutiger, body copy in Source Sans 3. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.
03Every character
AU+0041 · Source Sans 3 600
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20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
04The free stand-in: Source Sans 3
Why Source Sans 3. Humanist sans with open apertures built for signage legibility. Frutiger itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in Source Sans 3, which is free to use on the web and in print.
Source Sans 3, on its own. A humanist sans with open apertures, built for interface legibility above all.
If Frutiger is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.