# Fonts Like Noto Sans Display

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Noto Sans Display is Open Sans (similarity 89), then Hind Siliguri and Murecho. 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** | 89 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/open-sans/](/fonts/open-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Hind Siliguri** | 85 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/hind-siliguri/](/fonts/hind-siliguri.md) |
| #3 | **Murecho** | 85 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/murecho/](/fonts/murecho.md) |
| #4 | **Tajawal** | 84 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/tajawal/](/fonts/tajawal.md) |
| #5 | **Noto Sans JP** | 84 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-sans-jp/](/fonts/noto-sans-jp.md) |
| #6 | **Source Sans 3** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/source-sans-3/](/fonts/source-sans-3.md) |
| #7 | **Fira Sans** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/fira-sans/](/fonts/fira-sans.md) |
| #8 | **Voces** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/voces/](/fonts/voces.md) |
| #9 | **Varta** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/varta/](/fonts/varta.md) |
| #10 | **Merriweather Sans** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/merriweather-sans/](/fonts/merriweather-sans.md) |
| #11 | **Clear Sans** | 83 / 100 | Apache-2.0 | [/fonts/clear-sans/](/fonts/clear-sans.md) |
| #12 | **Asap Sharp** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/asap-sharp/](/fonts/asap-sharp.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Noto Sans Hebrew** (Hebr): Similarity 95, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew/](/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew.md)
- **Noto Sans Kannada** (Knda): Similarity 94, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-kannada/](/fonts/noto-sans-kannada.md)
- **Menbere** (Ethi): Similarity 92, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/menbere/](/fonts/menbere.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/noto-sans-display.json](/api/fonts-like/noto-sans-display.json).