Open Sauce Fonts

A contemporary grotesque superfamily designed by Alfredo Marco Pradil.

Overview

Open Sauce Fonts is a versatile type family optimized for digital interfaces, branding, and editorial design. The family comprises three distinct variants—each with unique optical characteristics while maintaining visual consistency across weights and styles.

Families

Family	Description	Characteristics
Open Sauce Sans	Standard grotesque with ink traps	Optimized for UI, display text
Open Sauce One	Clean grotesque without ink traps	Neutral, editorial-appropriate
Open Sauce Two	Rounded variant	Soft, approachable aesthetic

Technical Specifications

Weights & Styles

7 weights: Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), SemiBold (600), Bold (700), ExtraBold (800), Black (900)
2 styles per weight: Upright and Italic
Total: 42 font files per format (36 unique styles × 2 formats)

Formats

OTF (OpenType CFF): Desktop publishing, print
TTF (TrueType): Web, digital distribution

Glyph Coverage

358 glyphs per font
Extended Latin character set
Full punctuation and symbol support

OpenType Features

Standard features included:

liga – Standard Ligatures
kern – Kerning
smcp – Small Capitals
onum – Oldstyle Figures
lnum – Lining Figures

Installation

macOS

bash
# Option 1: Double-click font file → Install Font
# Option 2: Copy to ~/Library/Fonts/
cp fonts/otf/*.otf ~/Library/Fonts/

Linux

bash
# User installation
cp fonts/otf/*.otf ~/.local/share/fonts/
fc-cache -f -v

# System-wide installation (requires sudo)
sudo cp fonts/otf/*.otf /usr/share/fonts/
sudo fc-cache -f -v

Windows

bash
# Right-click font file → Install
# Or: Copy to C:\Windows\Fonts\

Web Usage

CSS Declaration

css
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Open Sauce Sans';
  src: url('fonts/ttf/OpenSauceSans-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Open Sauce Sans';
  src: url('fonts/ttf/OpenSauceSans-Italic.ttf') format('truetype');
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
}

Build from Source

The font sources are stored in Glyphs format in the Source/ directory. To rebuild:

bash
# Install dependencies
pip install fontmake glyphsLib

# Build static TTF fonts
fontmake -o ttf -i "Source/Open Sauce One.glyphs"

# Build static OTF fonts
fontmake -o otf -i "Source/Open Sauce One.glyphs"

Quality Assurance

This project uses FontBakery for automated quality checks. The GitHub Actions workflow runs on every push and pull request.

bash
# Run FontBakery locally
pip install fontbakery
fontbakery check-universal fonts/ttf/*.ttf

License

Open Sauce Fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License (OFL) version 1.1.

Free for personal and commercial use
No attribution required (though appreciated)
Modifications permitted with restrictions

See individual OFL.txt files for complete license terms.

Repository Structure

Open-Sauce-Fonts/
├── Source/                 # Glyphs source files
│   ├── Open Sauce One.glyphs
│   ├── Open Sauce Sans.glyphs
│   └── Open Sauce Two.glyphs
├── fonts/
│   ├── otf/               # OpenType fonts
│   └── ttf/               # TrueType fonts
├── Images/                # Specimen images
├── README.md
└── *.OFL.txt              # License files

Version History

v1.478 (Current)

Initial release
3 families × 7 weights × 2 styles
OTF and TTF formats

Author

Alfredo Marco Pradil

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Please ensure any contributions pass FontBakery checks before submitting.

Open Sauce Fonts – Crafted for clarity, designed for impact.