# Fonts Like Inria Serif

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Inria Serif is Noto Serif Hentaigana (similarity 78), then Noto Serif and Frank Ruhl Libre. Noto Serif Hentaigana 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 Serif Hentaigana** | 78 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-serif-hentaigana/](/fonts/noto-serif-hentaigana.md) |
| #2 | **Noto Serif** | 77 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-serif/](/fonts/noto-serif.md) |
| #3 | **Frank Ruhl Libre** | 74 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/frank-ruhl-libre/](/fonts/frank-ruhl-libre.md) |
| #4 | **Noto Serif JP** | 71 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-serif-jp/](/fonts/noto-serif-jp.md) |
| #5 | **Vidaloka** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/vidaloka/](/fonts/vidaloka.md) |
| #6 | **IBM Plex Serif** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/ibm-plex-serif/](/fonts/ibm-plex-serif.md) |
| #7 | **Charis SIL** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/charis-sil/](/fonts/charis-sil.md) |
| #8 | **Stardos Stencil** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/stardos-stencil/](/fonts/stardos-stencil.md) |
| #9 | **Noto Nastaliq Urdu** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-nastaliq-urdu/](/fonts/noto-nastaliq-urdu.md) |
| #10 | **Merriweather** | 66 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/merriweather/](/fonts/merriweather.md) |
| #11 | **Domine** | 66 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/domine/](/fonts/domine.md) |
| #12 | **Unna** | 66 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/unna/](/fonts/unna.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Noto Serif Telugu** (Telu): Similarity 74, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-serif-telugu/](/fonts/noto-serif-telugu.md)
- **Noto Serif Todhri** (Todr): Similarity 74, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-serif-todhri/](/fonts/noto-serif-todhri.md)
- **Noto Serif Oriya** (Orya): Similarity 73, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-serif-oriya/](/fonts/noto-serif-oriya.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/inria-serif.json](/api/fonts-like/inria-serif.json).