# Fonts Like Lekton

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Lekton is Noto Sans Mono (similarity 72), then Oxygen Mono and DejaVu Mono. Noto Sans 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 | **Noto Sans Mono** | 72 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-sans-mono/](/fonts/noto-sans-mono.md) |
| #2 | **Oxygen Mono** | 71 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/oxygen-mono/](/fonts/oxygen-mono.md) |
| #3 | **DejaVu Mono** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/dejavu-mono/](/fonts/dejavu-mono.md) |
| #4 | **Finlandica Headline** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/finlandica-headline/](/fonts/finlandica-headline.md) |
| #5 | **Ubuntu Sans Mono** | 68 / 100 | UFL-1.0 | [/fonts/ubuntu-sans-mono/](/fonts/ubuntu-sans-mono.md) |
| #6 | **Overpass Mono** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/overpass-mono/](/fonts/overpass-mono.md) |
| #7 | **iA Writer Mono** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/ia-writer-mono/](/fonts/ia-writer-mono.md) |
| #8 | **Ubuntu Mono** | 68 / 100 | UFL-1.0 | [/fonts/ubuntu-mono/](/fonts/ubuntu-mono.md) |
| #9 | **Reddit Mono** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/reddit-mono/](/fonts/reddit-mono.md) |
| #10 | **Anaheim** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/anaheim/](/fonts/anaheim.md) |
| #11 | **Roboto Mono** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/roboto-mono/](/fonts/roboto-mono.md) |
| #12 | **IBM Plex Mono** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/ibm-plex-mono/](/fonts/ibm-plex-mono.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/lekton.json](/api/fonts-like/lekton.json).