# Fonts Like Corbel

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Corbel is Actor (similarity 79), then Telex and Hind Siliguri. Actor is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Reference Font Profile

- **Family**: Corbel
- **Kind**: system font (no preview: commercial font, described from its sources)
- **Designer**: Jeremy Tankard
- **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/corbel) (read 2026-10-22)

### Fallback CSS Stack

```css
font-family: "Corbel", "Actor", sans-serif;
```

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Actor** | 79 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/actor/](/fonts/actor.md) |
| #2 | **Telex** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/telex/](/fonts/telex.md) |
| #3 | **Hind Siliguri** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/hind-siliguri/](/fonts/hind-siliguri.md) |
| #4 | **Noto Sans** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-sans/](/fonts/noto-sans.md) |
| #5 | **Nobile** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nobile/](/fonts/nobile.md) |
| #6 | **Open Sans** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/open-sans/](/fonts/open-sans.md) |
| #7 | **Mukta** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/mukta/](/fonts/mukta.md) |
| #8 | **AR One Sans** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/ar-one-sans/](/fonts/ar-one-sans.md) |
| #9 | **Commissioner** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/commissioner/](/fonts/commissioner.md) |
| #10 | **Funnel Sans** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/funnel-sans/](/fonts/funnel-sans.md) |
| #11 | **Maven Pro** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/maven-pro/](/fonts/maven-pro.md) |
| #12 | **DejaVu Sans** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/dejavu-sans/](/fonts/dejavu-sans.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Cambay** (Deva): Similarity 73, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/cambay/](/fonts/cambay.md)
- **Biryani** (Deva): Similarity 71, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/biryani/](/fonts/biryani.md)
- **Mukta Malar** (Taml): Similarity 71, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/mukta-malar/](/fonts/mukta-malar.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/corbel.json](/api/fonts-like/corbel.json).