# Fonts Like Nanum Gothic

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Nanum Gothic is Open Sans (similarity 83), then Hind Siliguri and Noto Sans. Open Sans 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 | **Open Sans** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/open-sans/](/fonts/open-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Hind Siliguri** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/hind-siliguri/](/fonts/hind-siliguri.md) |
| #3 | **Noto Sans** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-sans/](/fonts/noto-sans.md) |
| #4 | **Oxygen** | 78 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/oxygen/](/fonts/oxygen.md) |
| #5 | **Tajawal** | 77 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/tajawal/](/fonts/tajawal.md) |
| #6 | **Nebula Sans** | 76 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nebula-sans/](/fonts/nebula-sans.md) |
| #7 | **Voces** | 76 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/voces/](/fonts/voces.md) |
| #8 | **Encode Sans** | 75 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/encode-sans/](/fonts/encode-sans.md) |
| #9 | **Mukta** | 75 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/mukta/](/fonts/mukta.md) |
| #10 | **Telex** | 75 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/telex/](/fonts/telex.md) |
| #11 | **Inter Tight** | 74 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/inter-tight/](/fonts/inter-tight.md) |
| #12 | **Lunasima** | 74 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/lunasima/](/fonts/lunasima.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Khula** (Deva): Similarity 83, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/khula/](/fonts/khula.md)
- **Noto Sans Hebrew** (Hebr): Similarity 82, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew/](/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew.md)
- **Hind Guntur** (Telu): Similarity 81, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/hind-guntur/](/fonts/hind-guntur.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/nanum-gothic.json](/api/fonts-like/nanum-gothic.json).