# Fonts Like Lucida Console

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Lucida Console is Cousine (similarity 70), then Azeret Mono and Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono. Cousine is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Reference Font Profile

- **Family**: Lucida Console
- **Kind**: system font (no preview: commercial font, described from its sources)
- **Vendor**: Bigelow & Holmes
- **Supplied With**: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1
- **Licence**: LicenseRef-Windows-Font
- **Sources**:
  - [designers, vendor, products](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/lucida-console) (read 2026-10-22)

### Fallback CSS Stack

```css
font-family: "Lucida Console", "Cousine", monospace;
```

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Cousine** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/cousine/](/fonts/cousine.md) |
| #2 | **Azeret Mono** | 64 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/azeret-mono/](/fonts/azeret-mono.md) |
| #3 | **Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono** | 59 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/atkinson-hyperlegible-mono/](/fonts/atkinson-hyperlegible-mono.md) |
| #4 | **Blinker** | 59 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/blinker/](/fonts/blinker.md) |
| #5 | **Noto Mono** | 58 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-mono/](/fonts/noto-mono.md) |
| #6 | **Clear Sans** | 58 / 100 | Apache-2.0 | [/fonts/clear-sans/](/fonts/clear-sans.md) |
| #7 | **DejaVu Sans** | 57 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/dejavu-sans/](/fonts/dejavu-sans.md) |
| #8 | **Commit Mono** | 57 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/commit-mono/](/fonts/commit-mono.md) |
| #9 | **Vend Sans** | 57 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/vend-sans/](/fonts/vend-sans.md) |
| #10 | **Source Code Pro** | 56 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/source-code-pro/](/fonts/source-code-pro.md) |
| #11 | **Stack Sans Text** | 56 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/stack-sans-text/](/fonts/stack-sans-text.md) |
| #12 | **Fragment Mono** | 56 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/fragment-mono/](/fonts/fragment-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/lucida-console.json](/api/fonts-like/lucida-console.json).