# Fonts Like M PLUS U

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to M PLUS U is M PLUS 1 (similarity 87), then Red Hat Display and Wix Madefor Display. M PLUS 1 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 | **M PLUS 1** | 87 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/m-plus-1/](/fonts/m-plus-1.md) |
| #2 | **Red Hat Display** | 77 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/red-hat-display/](/fonts/red-hat-display.md) |
| #3 | **Wix Madefor Display** | 74 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/wix-madefor-display/](/fonts/wix-madefor-display.md) |
| #4 | **Gantari** | 71 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/gantari/](/fonts/gantari.md) |
| #5 | **Metropolis** | 70 / 100 | Unlicense | [/fonts/metropolis/](/fonts/metropolis.md) |
| #6 | **Alan Sans** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/alan-sans/](/fonts/alan-sans.md) |
| #7 | **Prompt** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/prompt/](/fonts/prompt.md) |
| #8 | **Zalando Sans SemiExpanded** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/zalando-sans-semiexpanded/](/fonts/zalando-sans-semiexpanded.md) |
| #9 | **Clarity City** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/clarity-city/](/fonts/clarity-city.md) |
| #10 | **Spinnaker** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/spinnaker/](/fonts/spinnaker.md) |
| #11 | **Varela Round** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/varela-round/](/fonts/varela-round.md) |
| #12 | **Hubot Sans** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/hubot-sans/](/fonts/hubot-sans.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **M PLUS 2** (Jpan): Similarity 85, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/m-plus-2/](/fonts/m-plus-2.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/m-plus-u.json](/api/fonts-like/m-plus-u.json).