# Fonts Like Montserrat

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Montserrat is Clarity City (similarity 82), then Metropolis and Nata Sans. Clarity City 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 | **Clarity City** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/clarity-city/](/fonts/clarity-city.md) |
| #2 | **Metropolis** | 79 / 100 | Unlicense | [/fonts/metropolis/](/fonts/metropolis.md) |
| #3 | **Nata Sans** | 76 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nata-sans/](/fonts/nata-sans.md) |
| #4 | **Questrial** | 76 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/questrial/](/fonts/questrial.md) |
| #5 | **Gantari** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/gantari/](/fonts/gantari.md) |
| #6 | **Varela Round** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/varela-round/](/fonts/varela-round.md) |
| #7 | **Argentum Sans** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/argentum-sans/](/fonts/argentum-sans.md) |
| #8 | **Funnel Display** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/funnel-display/](/fonts/funnel-display.md) |
| #9 | **Zalando Sans SemiExpanded** | 71 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/zalando-sans-semiexpanded/](/fonts/zalando-sans-semiexpanded.md) |
| #10 | **Encode Sans Expanded** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/encode-sans-expanded/](/fonts/encode-sans-expanded.md) |
| #11 | **Numans** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/numans/](/fonts/numans.md) |
| #12 | **Lexend Exa** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/lexend-exa/](/fonts/lexend-exa.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Alexandria** (Arab): Similarity 78, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/alexandria/](/fonts/alexandria.md)
- **Hubballi** (Knda): Similarity 75, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/hubballi/](/fonts/hubballi.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/montserrat.json](/api/fonts-like/montserrat.json).