People hate Open Sans?

Open Sans ate my burrito, which I clearly marked with my name.

Inexcusable.

I don't. I like it a lot too. I never heard anyone criticize it actually. Please don't tell me people view it on the same level with Comic Sans.

I'm fine with Open Sans but I can't say the same for Roboto.

Can you point out towards that discussion?

The only bad thing that Open Sans has is its overuse on the web.

Who hates Open Sans? Show some love people.

I also don't understand it. It's such a great typeface that is perfectly suited for on-screen display and has a bazillion of different weights and widths and therefore suitable for so many different occasions. It's the Helvetica of our age, but in a very positive way.

"It's difficult to come by anything both well designed and free."

I think, that as much as it works well on the web, it's visually appealing to the casual eye, and that it's free, most people think that mean it's GOOD.

In this case, it's true. Designed by a professional type designer, Steve Matteson, both by the casual eye and the professional eye it has much appeal.

This is not the case of all things free.

Apparently it's not as hated as I had thought. That's good to hear.

I sometimes forget that often internet bashing tends to be really loud at times.

I have never heard complaints regarding this font. Why would anyone whine against a font anyway?

It's a great workhorse font, therefore it's popular, popular will always have an opposition.

Never heard anything bad about it. Only recommendations. That's why I use it. :)

Because its readability sucks. In many cases it's being misused and in others abused. It's a pretty good font like many other ones (Helvetica Neue included), when used properly and never under 10pt size especially for OpenSans Condensed, which becomes awful to look at and even worse for reading.

Keep using it but know its limitations and strengths, then nobody should be complaining about it.

Cheers! ;)

Its glyphs have a slightly inconsistent vertical placement. I've used it on projects at large font sizes, and vertical-alignment with icon fonts and other elements proved harder than with Helvetica or similar.

It reminds them of 'Comic Sans'. Also the case that people will write to whinge, not to praise.

Not hating Open sans at all.. I do not hate any font, but have a strong distaste for Comic Sans ;-)

Never heart anybody complaining about it.

He said circle jerk!

But anyway I like the font. Google has quite a few to choose from. I think Open Sans is popular because of it's universal nature. It can look great for both headings and body copy depending on weight and line-height etc...

In the end, who cares what other people think. If the design calls for it then use it

I've never heard anyone criticising it, but rather complaining about it's really wide use. I used to obsess over using it a couple of years ago just because it rendered so well in PS.

I've been using Lato lately but took another look at Open Sans again today, it's a damn nice font and I'll use it on my next project :)

It seems like in the design world anytime any single good thing is used to much it becomes hated. Open Sans is a good typeface, I've used it many time, and so has everyone else. And yes, it is used a lot, but that is only because it is a good web type and it's FREE to use.

It's difficult to come by anything both well designed and free.

I think it's pretty good actually and I haven't heard anyone talking trash about either

Can't say I've seen any hate towards it?

But if I had to guess, I would say because it's soo popular. People don't like things simple because they are popular/overused sometimes.

Probably because it's used a lot, as it's one of the more clean looking sans serif fonts on Google Fonts. Popular stuff tends to be hated on over time, when it gets overused. Then the hipsters find new cool stuff, and start hating the previously cool stuff.

I might be alone but I love it :]