# Fonts Like Bahnschrift

12 open fonts whose letters are closest to Bahnschrift, ranked by a glyph comparison. All free for commercial use.

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Bahnschrift is Heebo (similarity 78), then Roboto Flex and IBM Plex Sans Condensed. Heebo is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Reference Font Profile

- **Family**: Bahnschrift
- **Kind**: system font (no preview: commercial font, described from its sources)
- **Vendor**: Microsoft Corporation
- **Supplied With**: Windows 11, Windows 10, Brief history of Bahnschrift design and production
- **Licence**: LicenseRef-Windows-Font
- **Sources**:
  - [designers, vendor, products](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/bahnschrift) (read 2026-10-22)

### Fallback CSS Stack

```css
font-family: "Bahnschrift", "Heebo", sans-serif;
```

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Heebo** | 78 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/heebo/](/fonts/heebo.md) |
| #2 | **Roboto Flex** | 77 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/roboto-flex/](/fonts/roboto-flex.md) |
| #3 | **IBM Plex Sans Condensed** | 76 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/ibm-plex-sans-condensed/](/fonts/ibm-plex-sans-condensed.md) |
| #4 | **Yantramanav** | 76 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/yantramanav/](/fonts/yantramanav.md) |
| #5 | **Overpass** | 76 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/overpass/](/fonts/overpass.md) |
| #6 | **Gidole** | 76 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/gidole/](/fonts/gidole.md) |
| #7 | **Reddit Sans Condensed** | 75 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/reddit-sans-condensed/](/fonts/reddit-sans-condensed.md) |
| #8 | **Cossette Texte** | 75 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/cossette-texte/](/fonts/cossette-texte.md) |
| #9 | **Barlow** | 74 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/barlow/](/fonts/barlow.md) |
| #10 | **Inria Sans** | 74 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/inria-sans/](/fonts/inria-sans.md) |
| #11 | **Spline Sans** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/spline-sans/](/fonts/spline-sans.md) |
| #12 | **Monda** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/monda/](/fonts/monda.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Sarabun** (Thai): Similarity 76, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/sarabun/](/fonts/sarabun.md)
- **Narnoor** (Gong): Similarity 74, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/narnoor/](/fonts/narnoor.md)
- **Do Hyeon** (Kore): Similarity 73, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/do-hyeon/](/fonts/do-hyeon.md)

## Scoring Method

62 letters and digits (A-Z a-z 0-9) rendered at 160px cap height on a 32x32 grid with 3px gaussian blur, combined with edge-orientation texture (15% weight). Scores are normalized so that 0 represents an average pair of fonts across the 1571 compared fonts, and 100 represents identical letter shapes. Computed on 2026-10-22 using glyph-shape + edge-texture v2.

## Machine API

JSON representation available at [/api/fonts-like/bahnschrift.json](/api/fonts-like/bahnschrift.json).