# Fonts Like Bookman

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Bookman is Platypi (similarity 73), then Brygada 1918 and Montagu Slab. Platypi is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Reference Font Profile

- **Family**: Bookman
- **Kind**: stand-in font (no preview: commercial font, described from its sources)
- **Licence**: unknown
- **Stand-in Comparison**: We compared against TeX Gyre Bonum, which CTAN describes: "The TeX Gyre Bonum family of serif fonts is based on the URW Bookman L family."
- **Sources**:
  - [why the stand-in, original designers](https://ctan.org/pkg/tex-gyre-bonum) (read 2026-10-22)

### Fallback CSS Stack

```css
font-family: "Bookman", "Platypi", serif;
```

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Platypi** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/platypi/](/fonts/platypi.md) |
| #2 | **Brygada 1918** | 71 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/brygada-1918/](/fonts/brygada-1918.md) |
| #3 | **Montagu Slab** | 71 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/montagu-slab/](/fonts/montagu-slab.md) |
| #4 | **Libre Baskerville** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/libre-baskerville/](/fonts/libre-baskerville.md) |
| #5 | **Kameron** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/kameron/](/fonts/kameron.md) |
| #6 | **Fraunces** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/fraunces/](/fonts/fraunces.md) |
| #7 | **Redaction** | 66 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/redaction/](/fonts/redaction.md) |
| #8 | **Belgrano** | 64 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/belgrano/](/fonts/belgrano.md) |
| #9 | **Hedvig Letters Serif** | 64 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/hedvig-letters-serif/](/fonts/hedvig-letters-serif.md) |
| #10 | **Domine** | 64 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/domine/](/fonts/domine.md) |
| #11 | **Source Serif 4** | 63 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/source-serif-4/](/fonts/source-serif-4.md) |
| #12 | **Besley** | 63 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/besley/](/fonts/besley.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **BIZ UDPMincho** (Jpan): Similarity 72, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/biz-udpmincho/](/fonts/biz-udpmincho.md)
- **Taviraj** (Thai): Similarity 65, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/taviraj/](/fonts/taviraj.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/bookman.json](/api/fonts-like/bookman.json).