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.
Side-by-side comparison
Top lookalikes compared at the same size Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Top lookalikes: licence permissions
Commercial rights side by sideNoto SansOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed
Open SansOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed
LunasimaOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed
All 12 open lookalikes, ranked
Comparison based on letter shape and edge texture#1
Noto Sans OFL-1.1
Similarity 83 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#2
Open Sans OFL-1.1
Similarity 83 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#3
Lunasima OFL-1.1
Similarity 83 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#4
Telex OFL-1.1
Similarity 81 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#5
Funnel Sans OFL-1.1
Similarity 81 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#6
Hind Siliguri OFL-1.1
Similarity 81 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#7
Golos Text OFL-1.1
Similarity 80 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#8
Mukta OFL-1.1
Similarity 80 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#9
Oxygen OFL-1.1
Similarity 80 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#10
Clear Sans Apache-2.0
Similarity 79 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#11
Voces OFL-1.1
Similarity 79 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#12
Liter OFL-1.1
Similarity 79 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Fonts made for other scripts with similar Latin letters
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.