# Fonts Like Hind

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Hind is Noto Sans (similarity 89), then Open Sans and Mukta. Noto 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 | **Noto Sans** | 89 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-sans/](/fonts/noto-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Open Sans** | 86 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/open-sans/](/fonts/open-sans.md) |
| #3 | **Mukta** | 84 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/mukta/](/fonts/mukta.md) |
| #4 | **Telex** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/telex/](/fonts/telex.md) |
| #5 | **Inter** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/inter/](/fonts/inter.md) |
| #6 | **TASA Explorer** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/tasa-explorer/](/fonts/tasa-explorer.md) |
| #7 | **Pretendard** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pretendard/](/fonts/pretendard.md) |
| #8 | **Nanum Gothic** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nanum-gothic/](/fonts/nanum-gothic.md) |
| #9 | **Nebula Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nebula-sans/](/fonts/nebula-sans.md) |
| #10 | **Adwaita Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/adwaita-sans/](/fonts/adwaita-sans.md) |
| #11 | **Ubuntu** | 82 / 100 | UFL-1.0 | [/fonts/ubuntu/](/fonts/ubuntu.md) |
| #12 | **Funnel Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/funnel-sans/](/fonts/funnel-sans.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Hind Guntur** (Telu): Similarity 98, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/hind-guntur/](/fonts/hind-guntur.md)
- **Noto Sans Kannada** (Knda): Similarity 89, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-kannada/](/fonts/noto-sans-kannada.md)
- **Noto Sans Hebrew** (Hebr): Similarity 88, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew/](/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew.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/hind.json](/api/fonts-like/hind.json).