# Fonts Like Dawning of a New Day

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Dawning of a New Day is Yesteryear (similarity 0), then Knewave and Beth Ellen. Yesteryear 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 | **Yesteryear** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/yesteryear/](/fonts/yesteryear.md) |
| #2 | **Knewave** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/knewave/](/fonts/knewave.md) |
| #3 | **Beth Ellen** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/beth-ellen/](/fonts/beth-ellen.md) |
| #4 | **Pacifico** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pacifico/](/fonts/pacifico.md) |
| #5 | **Devonshire** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/devonshire/](/fonts/devonshire.md) |
| #6 | **Satisfy** | 0 / 100 | Apache-2.0 | [/fonts/satisfy/](/fonts/satisfy.md) |
| #7 | **Piedra** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/piedra/](/fonts/piedra.md) |
| #8 | **Rubik Beastly** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/rubik-beastly/](/fonts/rubik-beastly.md) |
| #9 | **Akronim** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/akronim/](/fonts/akronim.md) |
| #10 | **Rouge Script** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/rouge-script/](/fonts/rouge-script.md) |
| #11 | **Neonderthaw** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/neonderthaw/](/fonts/neonderthaw.md) |
| #12 | **Seaweed Script** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/seaweed-script/](/fonts/seaweed-script.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Fasthand** (Khmr): Similarity 0, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/fasthand/](/fonts/fasthand.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/dawning-of-a-new-day.json](/api/fonts-like/dawning-of-a-new-day.json).