# Fonts Like MV Boli

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to MV Boli is Nova Script (similarity 36), then Oleo Script and Courgette. Nova Script is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Reference Font Profile

- **Family**: MV Boli
- **Kind**: system font (no preview: commercial font, described from its sources)
- **Designer**: Thomas Rickner, Kamal Mansour
- **Vendor**: Agfa Monotype Corporation
- **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/mv-boli) (read 2026-10-22)

### Fallback CSS Stack

```css
font-family: "MV Boli", "Nova Script", sans-serif;
```

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

> Note: Scores under 50 indicate no open font is very close; these share some traits.

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Nova Script** | 36 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nova-script/](/fonts/nova-script.md) |
| #2 | **Oleo Script** | 30 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/oleo-script/](/fonts/oleo-script.md) |
| #3 | **Courgette** | 28 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/courgette/](/fonts/courgette.md) |
| #4 | **Ceviche One** | 27 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/ceviche-one/](/fonts/ceviche-one.md) |
| #5 | **Knewave** | 25 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/knewave/](/fonts/knewave.md) |
| #6 | **Story Script** | 24 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/story-script/](/fonts/story-script.md) |
| #7 | **Oleo Script Swash Caps** | 24 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/oleo-script-swash-caps/](/fonts/oleo-script-swash-caps.md) |
| #8 | **Fugaz One** | 22 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/fugaz-one/](/fonts/fugaz-one.md) |
| #9 | **Carter One** | 21 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/carter-one/](/fonts/carter-one.md) |
| #10 | **Agbalumo** | 19 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/agbalumo/](/fonts/agbalumo.md) |
| #11 | **Kaushan Script** | 18 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/kaushan-script/](/fonts/kaushan-script.md) |
| #12 | **Lemon** | 18 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/lemon/](/fonts/lemon.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Sriracha** (Thai): Similarity 29, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/sriracha/](/fonts/sriracha.md)
- **Solitreo** (Hebr): Similarity 22, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/solitreo/](/fonts/solitreo.md)
- **Gveret Levin** (Hebr): Similarity 20, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/gveret-levin/](/fonts/gveret-levin.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/mv-boli.json](/api/fonts-like/mv-boli.json).