# Fonts Like DejaVu Sans

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to DejaVu Sans is Noto Sans (similarity 83), then Open Sans and Lunasima. Noto 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 | **Noto Sans** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-sans/](/fonts/noto-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Open Sans** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/open-sans/](/fonts/open-sans.md) |
| #3 | **Lunasima** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/lunasima/](/fonts/lunasima.md) |
| #4 | **Telex** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/telex/](/fonts/telex.md) |
| #5 | **Funnel Sans** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/funnel-sans/](/fonts/funnel-sans.md) |
| #6 | **Hind Siliguri** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/hind-siliguri/](/fonts/hind-siliguri.md) |
| #7 | **Golos Text** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/golos-text/](/fonts/golos-text.md) |
| #8 | **Mukta** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/mukta/](/fonts/mukta.md) |
| #9 | **Oxygen** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/oxygen/](/fonts/oxygen.md) |
| #10 | **Clear Sans** | 79 / 100 | Apache-2.0 | [/fonts/clear-sans/](/fonts/clear-sans.md) |
| #11 | **Voces** | 79 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/voces/](/fonts/voces.md) |
| #12 | **Liter** | 79 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/liter/](/fonts/liter.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Noto Sans Hebrew** (Hebr): Similarity 84, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew/](/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew.md)
- **Khula** (Deva): Similarity 82, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/khula/](/fonts/khula.md)
- **Noto Sans Nag Mundari** (Nagm): Similarity 82, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-nag-mundari/](/fonts/noto-sans-nag-mundari.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/dejavu-sans.json](/api/fonts-like/dejavu-sans.json).