# Fonts Like Elms Sans

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Elms Sans is Albert Sans (similarity 74), then Wix Madefor Display and Gantari. Albert 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 | **Albert Sans** | 74 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/albert-sans/](/fonts/albert-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Wix Madefor Display** | 74 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/wix-madefor-display/](/fonts/wix-madefor-display.md) |
| #3 | **Gantari** | 72 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/gantari/](/fonts/gantari.md) |
| #4 | **Host Grotesk** | 71 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/host-grotesk/](/fonts/host-grotesk.md) |
| #5 | **Questrial** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/questrial/](/fonts/questrial.md) |
| #6 | **Clarity City** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/clarity-city/](/fonts/clarity-city.md) |
| #7 | **Metropolis** | 69 / 100 | Unlicense | [/fonts/metropolis/](/fonts/metropolis.md) |
| #8 | **Red Hat Display** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/red-hat-display/](/fonts/red-hat-display.md) |
| #9 | **Google Sans Flex** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/google-sans-flex/](/fonts/google-sans-flex.md) |
| #10 | **DM Sans** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/dm-sans/](/fonts/dm-sans.md) |
| #11 | **TASA Orbiter** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/tasa-orbiter/](/fonts/tasa-orbiter.md) |
| #12 | **Zalando Sans SemiExpanded** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/zalando-sans-semiexpanded/](/fonts/zalando-sans-semiexpanded.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Fustat** (Arab): Similarity 70, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/fustat/](/fonts/fustat.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/elms-sans.json](/api/fonts-like/elms-sans.json).