# Fonts Like Libre Franklin

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Libre Franklin is Public Sans (similarity 91), then Special Gothic and Zalando Sans. Public 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 | **Public Sans** | 91 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/public-sans/](/fonts/public-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Special Gothic** | 86 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/special-gothic/](/fonts/special-gothic.md) |
| #3 | **Zalando Sans** | 84 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/zalando-sans/](/fonts/zalando-sans.md) |
| #4 | **Roboto Flex** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/roboto-flex/](/fonts/roboto-flex.md) |
| #5 | **Pretendard** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pretendard/](/fonts/pretendard.md) |
| #6 | **Inter** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/inter/](/fonts/inter.md) |
| #7 | **Pontano Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pontano-sans/](/fonts/pontano-sans.md) |
| #8 | **Funnel Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/funnel-sans/](/fonts/funnel-sans.md) |
| #9 | **Istok Web** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/istok-web/](/fonts/istok-web.md) |
| #10 | **Miranda Sans** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/miranda-sans/](/fonts/miranda-sans.md) |
| #11 | **Geist** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/geist/](/fonts/geist.md) |
| #12 | **Gothic A1** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/gothic-a1/](/fonts/gothic-a1.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/libre-franklin.json](/api/fonts-like/libre-franklin.json).