Fonts like Comic Sans MS
12 open fonts whose letters are closest to Comic Sans MS, ranked by a glyph comparison. All free for commercial use.
The closest open font to Comic Sans MS is Comic Relief (similarity 68), then Bubblegum Sans and Averia Gruesa Libre. Comic Relief is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.
Comic Sans MS
font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Relief", sans-serif;Use Comic Sans MS when installed on the visitor's device, automatically falling back to Comic Relief (closest open lookalike).
Comic Sans MS Licence & Permissions
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Comparison based on letter shape and edge texture⚠️ No open font is very close; these share some traits.
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How the similarity score works
Each score is calculated by comparing 62 letters and digits (A-Z a-z 0-9) rendered at a 160px cap height on a 32×32 grid with 3px gaussian blur, combined with edge-orientation texture (weighted at 15%).
Scores are normalized on a standardized scale: 100 represents identical letterforms, and 0 represents an average pair among the 1571 fonts compared.