# Fonts Like Darker Grotesque

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Darker Grotesque is Hubot Sans (similarity 73), then Mona Sans and Zalando Sans SemiExpanded. Hubot Sans is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Hubot Sans** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/hubot-sans/](/fonts/hubot-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Mona Sans** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/mona-sans/](/fonts/mona-sans.md) |
| #3 | **Zalando Sans SemiExpanded** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/zalando-sans-semiexpanded/](/fonts/zalando-sans-semiexpanded.md) |
| #4 | **Questrial** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/questrial/](/fonts/questrial.md) |
| #5 | **Host Grotesk** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/host-grotesk/](/fonts/host-grotesk.md) |
| #6 | **Gantari** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/gantari/](/fonts/gantari.md) |
| #7 | **Wix Madefor Display** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/wix-madefor-display/](/fonts/wix-madefor-display.md) |
| #8 | **Albert Sans** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/albert-sans/](/fonts/albert-sans.md) |
| #9 | **Instrument Sans** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/instrument-sans/](/fonts/instrument-sans.md) |
| #10 | **Funnel Display** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/funnel-display/](/fonts/funnel-display.md) |
| #11 | **TASA Orbiter** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/tasa-orbiter/](/fonts/tasa-orbiter.md) |
| #12 | **Red Hat Display** | 66 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/red-hat-display/](/fonts/red-hat-display.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/darker-grotesque.json](/api/fonts-like/darker-grotesque.json).