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It seems that Google is now serving Open Sans Regular 400 as italic. Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
Preview tools from various websites suggest the same. This screenshot is from http://typecast.com/preview/google/Open%20Sans
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Product Sans is a contemporary geometric sans-serif typeface created by Google for branding purposes. It replaced the old Google logo on September 1, 2015.
Open Sans is an open source humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, commissioned by Google and released in 2011. It is based on his previous Droid Sans design, designed for Android mobile devices, but slightly wider.
Based on Libre Franklin, Public Sans is a strong, neutral typeface for interfaces, text, and headings. It was Developed by the United States Web Design System. The family was upgraded to a variable font in May 2022.
Open Sans is the second most-used font on Google Fonts.
I found the reason for the issue:
I had installed some of Google's Open Sans font styles (Bold, Bold Italic, Italic, etc), but not Regular 400, using the service called SkyFonts.
When any website offered to serve a webfont-version of Open Sans, Chrome obviously resolved to using the system font Open Sans, falling back to 400 italic, which was the closest to 400 Regular, rather than downloading the webfonts.
Internet Explorer was not handling the issue the same way, and managed thus to present the webfont instead of using the closest matched system font.
The solution was one of the following:
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