# Fonts Like Gabriola

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Gabriola is IM Fell DW Pica (similarity 40), then IM Fell Double Pica and Buenard. IM Fell DW Pica is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Reference Font Profile

- **Family**: Gabriola
- **Kind**: system font (no preview: commercial font, described from its sources)
- **Designer**: John Hudson
- **Vendor**: Microsoft Corp.
- **Supplied With**: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1
- **Licence**: LicenseRef-Windows-Font
- **Sources**:
  - [designers, vendor, products](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/gabriola) (read 2026-10-22)

### Fallback CSS Stack

```css
font-family: "Gabriola", "IM Fell DW Pica", serif;
```

## 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 | **IM Fell DW Pica** | 40 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/im-fell-dw-pica/](/fonts/im-fell-dw-pica.md) |
| #2 | **IM Fell Double Pica** | 39 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/im-fell-double-pica/](/fonts/im-fell-double-pica.md) |
| #3 | **Buenard** | 37 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/buenard/](/fonts/buenard.md) |
| #4 | **Jacques Francois** | 37 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/jacques-francois/](/fonts/jacques-francois.md) |
| #5 | **IM Fell Great Primer** | 35 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/im-fell-great-primer/](/fonts/im-fell-great-primer.md) |
| #6 | **Baskervville** | 35 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/baskervville/](/fonts/baskervville.md) |
| #7 | **Fanwood Text** | 34 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/fanwood-text/](/fonts/fanwood-text.md) |
| #8 | **Tagesschrift** | 34 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/tagesschrift/](/fonts/tagesschrift.md) |
| #9 | **Alegreya** | 34 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/alegreya/](/fonts/alegreya.md) |
| #10 | **Vollkorn** | 33 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/vollkorn/](/fonts/vollkorn.md) |
| #11 | **Joan** | 33 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/joan/](/fonts/joan.md) |
| #12 | **Merienda** | 32 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/merienda/](/fonts/merienda.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Akaya Telivigala** (Telu): Similarity 38, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/akaya-telivigala/](/fonts/akaya-telivigala.md)
- **Benne** (Knda): Similarity 38, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/benne/](/fonts/benne.md)
- **Amiri** (Arab): Similarity 34, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/amiri/](/fonts/amiri.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/gabriola.json](/api/fonts-like/gabriola.json).