# Fonts Like Cambria

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Cambria is Noto Serif (similarity 79), then Noto Serif Hentaigana and Amethysta. Noto Serif is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Reference Font Profile

- **Family**: Cambria
- **Kind**: system font (no preview: commercial font, described from its sources)
- **Designer**: Monotype Imaging and Tiro Typeworks
- **Vendor**: Microsoft Corp.
- **Supplied With**: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1
- **Licence**: LicenseRef-Windows-Font
- **Sources**:
  - [designers, vendor, products](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/cambria) (read 2026-10-22)

### Fallback CSS Stack

```css
font-family: "Cambria", "Noto Serif", serif;
```

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Noto Serif** | 79 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-serif/](/fonts/noto-serif.md) |
| #2 | **Noto Serif Hentaigana** | 78 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-serif-hentaigana/](/fonts/noto-serif-hentaigana.md) |
| #3 | **Amethysta** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/amethysta/](/fonts/amethysta.md) |
| #4 | **PT Serif** | 72 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pt-serif/](/fonts/pt-serif.md) |
| #5 | **Noto Nastaliq Urdu** | 72 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-nastaliq-urdu/](/fonts/noto-nastaliq-urdu.md) |
| #6 | **Frank Ruhl Libre** | 72 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/frank-ruhl-libre/](/fonts/frank-ruhl-libre.md) |
| #7 | **Caladea** | 71 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/caladea/](/fonts/caladea.md) |
| #8 | **Inria Serif** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/inria-serif/](/fonts/inria-serif.md) |
| #9 | **Charis SIL** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/charis-sil/](/fonts/charis-sil.md) |
| #10 | **Stardos Stencil** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/stardos-stencil/](/fonts/stardos-stencil.md) |
| #11 | **Merriweather** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/merriweather/](/fonts/merriweather.md) |
| #12 | **Gupter** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/gupter/](/fonts/gupter.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Noto Serif Todhri** (Todr): Similarity 75, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-serif-todhri/](/fonts/noto-serif-todhri.md)
- **Noto Serif Telugu** (Telu): Similarity 75, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-serif-telugu/](/fonts/noto-serif-telugu.md)
- **Noto Serif Oriya** (Orya): Similarity 75, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-serif-oriya/](/fonts/noto-serif-oriya.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/cambria.json](/api/fonts-like/cambria.json).