# Fonts Like Kosugi Maru

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Kosugi Maru is Iosevka Charon Mono (similarity 70), then Iosevka Curly and Iosevka. Iosevka Charon Mono 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 | **Iosevka Charon Mono** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/iosevka-charon-mono/](/fonts/iosevka-charon-mono.md) |
| #2 | **Iosevka Curly** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/iosevka-curly/](/fonts/iosevka-curly.md) |
| #3 | **Iosevka** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/iosevka/](/fonts/iosevka.md) |
| #4 | **Adwaita Mono** | 65 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/adwaita-mono/](/fonts/adwaita-mono.md) |
| #5 | **Maple Mono** | 64 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/maple-mono/](/fonts/maple-mono.md) |
| #6 | **Special Gothic Condensed One** | 64 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/special-gothic-condensed-one/](/fonts/special-gothic-condensed-one.md) |
| #7 | **Freeman** | 62 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/freeman/](/fonts/freeman.md) |
| #8 | **Cossette Titre** | 61 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/cossette-titre/](/fonts/cossette-titre.md) |
| #9 | **Francois One** | 61 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/francois-one/](/fonts/francois-one.md) |
| #10 | **Datatype** | 60 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/datatype/](/fonts/datatype.md) |
| #11 | **Iosevka Aile** | 59 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/iosevka-aile/](/fonts/iosevka-aile.md) |
| #12 | **Iosevka Curly Slab** | 58 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/iosevka-curly-slab/](/fonts/iosevka-curly-slab.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Kosugi** (Jpan): Similarity 89, licence Apache-2.0 - [/fonts/kosugi/](/fonts/kosugi.md)
- **BIZ UDGothic** (Jpan): Similarity 65, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/biz-udgothic/](/fonts/biz-udgothic.md)
- **LXGW WenKai Mono TC** (Hant): Similarity 64, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/lxgw-wenkai-mono-tc/](/fonts/lxgw-wenkai-mono-tc.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/kosugi-maru.json](/api/fonts-like/kosugi-maru.json).