Why is Open Sans Condensed everywhere?

[ifaptoomuch]

Is it just me or has Open Sans condensed been popping up everywhere? I've noticed it on Codecademy, Google Chrome app store, and even in a bunch of random blogs and blog comments sections, places that otherwise has fairly poor/basic designs.

I've only noticed it since I upgraded to a late 2013 15" rMBP. Did my defaults get messed up somehow or did everyone just suddenly decide to use this super tiny font? Its like this on every browser I use.

 

[sammich]

Websites can apply CSS styles for specific screen densities. It's possible that those sites have something like that. Codeacademy seems to be using Helvetica Neue on my non-retina machine.

http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/retina-display-media-query/

 

[iPaintCode]

Open Sans is the FOTM font served up via google web fonts, kind of like flat web design, just typical trends.

 

[trenthanover]

Open Sans is the FOTM font served via google...