# Fonts Like Freehand

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Freehand is Seaweed Script (similarity 99), then Knewave and Praise. Seaweed Script 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 | **Seaweed Script** | 99 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/seaweed-script/](/fonts/seaweed-script.md) |
| #2 | **Knewave** | 36 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/knewave/](/fonts/knewave.md) |
| #3 | **Praise** | 27 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/praise/](/fonts/praise.md) |
| #4 | **Dancing Script** | 18 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/dancing-script/](/fonts/dancing-script.md) |
| #5 | **Miniver** | 18 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/miniver/](/fonts/miniver.md) |
| #6 | **Condiment** | 18 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/condiment/](/fonts/condiment.md) |
| #7 | **Vampiro One** | 16 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/vampiro-one/](/fonts/vampiro-one.md) |
| #8 | **Yellowtail** | 16 / 100 | Apache-2.0 | [/fonts/yellowtail/](/fonts/yellowtail.md) |
| #9 | **Beth Ellen** | 16 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/beth-ellen/](/fonts/beth-ellen.md) |
| #10 | **Courgette** | 16 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/courgette/](/fonts/courgette.md) |
| #11 | **Aguafina Script** | 15 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/aguafina-script/](/fonts/aguafina-script.md) |
| #12 | **Yesteryear** | 15 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/yesteryear/](/fonts/yesteryear.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/freehand.json](/api/fonts-like/freehand.json).