# Fonts Like Dela Gothic One

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Dela Gothic One is BBH Hegarty (similarity 80), then Special Gothic Expanded One and Archivo Black. BBH Hegarty 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 | **BBH Hegarty** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/bbh-hegarty/](/fonts/bbh-hegarty.md) |
| #2 | **Special Gothic Expanded One** | 75 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/special-gothic-expanded-one/](/fonts/special-gothic-expanded-one.md) |
| #3 | **Archivo Black** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/archivo-black/](/fonts/archivo-black.md) |
| #4 | **Days One** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/days-one/](/fonts/days-one.md) |
| #5 | **Peace Sans** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/peace-sans/](/fonts/peace-sans.md) |
| #6 | **Wendy One** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/wendy-one/](/fonts/wendy-one.md) |
| #7 | **Rubik One** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/rubik-one/](/fonts/rubik-one.md) |
| #8 | **Bowlby One** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/bowlby-one/](/fonts/bowlby-one.md) |
| #9 | **Ultra** | 67 / 100 | Apache-2.0 | [/fonts/ultra/](/fonts/ultra.md) |
| #10 | **Rammetto One** | 65 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/rammetto-one/](/fonts/rammetto-one.md) |
| #11 | **Rubik Glitch** | 62 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/rubik-glitch/](/fonts/rubik-glitch.md) |
| #12 | **Chango** | 62 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/chango/](/fonts/chango.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/dela-gothic-one.json](/api/fonts-like/dela-gothic-one.json).