# Fonts Like Lucida Sans Unicode

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Lucida Sans Unicode is Noto Sans (similarity 84), then Hind Siliguri and Asap Sharp. Noto Sans is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Reference Font Profile

- **Family**: Lucida Sans Unicode
- **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-sans-unicode) (read 2026-10-22)

### Fallback CSS Stack

```css
font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Noto Sans", sans-serif;
```

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Noto Sans** | 84 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-sans/](/fonts/noto-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Hind Siliguri** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/hind-siliguri/](/fonts/hind-siliguri.md) |
| #3 | **Asap Sharp** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/asap-sharp/](/fonts/asap-sharp.md) |
| #4 | **DejaVu Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/dejavu-sans/](/fonts/dejavu-sans.md) |
| #5 | **Mukta** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/mukta/](/fonts/mukta.md) |
| #6 | **Voces** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/voces/](/fonts/voces.md) |
| #7 | **Open Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/open-sans/](/fonts/open-sans.md) |
| #8 | **Lunasima** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/lunasima/](/fonts/lunasima.md) |
| #9 | **Clear Sans** | 81 / 100 | Apache-2.0 | [/fonts/clear-sans/](/fonts/clear-sans.md) |
| #10 | **Telex** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/telex/](/fonts/telex.md) |
| #11 | **Shanti** | 79 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/shanti/](/fonts/shanti.md) |
| #12 | **Tajawal** | 79 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/tajawal/](/fonts/tajawal.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Noto Sans Hebrew** (Hebr): Similarity 83, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew/](/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew.md)
- **Menbere** (Ethi): Similarity 83, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/menbere/](/fonts/menbere.md)
- **Noto Sans Nag Mundari** (Nagm): Similarity 82, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-nag-mundari/](/fonts/noto-sans-nag-mundari.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-sans-unicode.json](/api/fonts-like/lucida-sans-unicode.json).