# Fonts Like Cherry Swash

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Cherry Swash is Crete Round (similarity 35), then Zilla Slab and Trocchi. Crete Round is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

> Note: Scores under 50 indicate no open font is very close; these share some traits.

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Crete Round** | 35 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/crete-round/](/fonts/crete-round.md) |
| #2 | **Zilla Slab** | 30 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/zilla-slab/](/fonts/zilla-slab.md) |
| #3 | **Trocchi** | 29 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/trocchi/](/fonts/trocchi.md) |
| #4 | **Orelega One** | 28 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/orelega-one/](/fonts/orelega-one.md) |
| #5 | **Inika** | 27 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/inika/](/fonts/inika.md) |
| #6 | **Gelasio** | 27 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/gelasio/](/fonts/gelasio.md) |
| #7 | **Poly** | 26 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/poly/](/fonts/poly.md) |
| #8 | **Playfair** | 25 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/playfair/](/fonts/playfair.md) |
| #9 | **Bree Serif** | 25 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/bree-serif/](/fonts/bree-serif.md) |
| #10 | **Rhodium Libre** | 25 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/rhodium-libre/](/fonts/rhodium-libre.md) |
| #11 | **Bevan** | 25 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/bevan/](/fonts/bevan.md) |
| #12 | **Chunk Five** | 25 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/chunk-five/](/fonts/chunk-five.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Suez One** (Hebr): Similarity 32, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/suez-one/](/fonts/suez-one.md)
- **Martel** (Deva): Similarity 27, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/martel/](/fonts/martel.md)
- **Kadwa** (Deva): Similarity 26, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/kadwa/](/fonts/kadwa.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/cherry-swash.json](/api/fonts-like/cherry-swash.json).