Fonts that go with Open Sans
Of the 1,135,822 home pages that load Open Sans, 16% also load Roboto and 11% Montserrat. Open Sans meets 598 fonts on 50 sites or more. Weighed against how common each font is, Shadows Into Light comes with it most: on 4,812 sites, where chance would give 1,489. Not all of Roboto with Google Sans is design: Google’s maps and other widgets load Roboto and Google Sans into the pages they sit on.
Fonts on the same home page, not which one sets the headings · HTTP Archive , 1 September 2026
01 / Set together
How the pairs look
Each font drawn from its own outlines, one as a heading and the other as text, then the other way round: the crawl does not say which sets the headings.
Open Sans + Roboto
179,940 sites · 0.8× chance
Heading · Open Sans
Open SansText · Roboto
Heading · Roboto
RobotoText · Open Sans
Open Sans + Shadows Into Light
4,812 sites · 3.2× chance
Heading · Open Sans
Open SansText · Shadows Into Light
Heading · Shadows Into Light
Shadows Into LightText · Open Sans
Open Sans + Gruppo
1,437 sites · 2.9× chance
Heading · Open Sans
Open SansText · Gruppo
Heading · Gruppo
GruppoText · Open Sans
02 / Most often
Used most with Open Sans
The share of its 1,135,822 home pages that load each font too, and how many times as often as chance would have it: 1× is chance.
- Roboto16%179,940 sites · 0.8× chance
- Montserrat11%128,721 sites · 0.9× chance
- Poppins7%79,890 sites · 0.6× chance
- Lato5.5%62,360 sites · 0.7× chance
- Raleway4.8%55,037 sites · 1.2× chance
- Oswald3.8%43,108 sites · 1.3× chance
- Playfair Display2.6%29,741 sites · 1× chance
- Inter2.5%28,703 sites · 0.2× chance
- Google Sans1.9%21,040 sites · 0.7× chance
03 / Beyond chance
Used with it beyond chance
Weighed against how common each font is: the sites that load both, against those that would if every site picked its fonts at random, each as often as sites use it. From 50 sites, and not one theme copied.
04 / Questions
Pairing Open Sans
Answered from HTTP Archive’s crawl of 1 September 2026 and each font’s licence
What font goes with Open Sans?
On the 1,135,822 home pages that load Open Sans (HTTP Archive, September 2026), the fonts loaded most often with it are Roboto (179,940 sites, 16% of them), Montserrat (128,721) and Poppins (79,890). They are on the same page: the data does not say which one sets the headings.
What fonts pair well with Open Sans?
Weighed against how common each font is, sites choose Shadows Into Light with Open Sans most: 3.2× as often as chance would have it, on 4,812 sites where chance gives 1,489. Then Gruppo (2.9×) and Yanone Kaffeesatz (1.5×).
Can I use Open Sans and Shadows Into Light together for free?
Yes: both are free, commercial work included. Open Sans and Shadows Into Light are both under the SIL Open Font License. Each font’s page says what its licence allows.