# Fonts Like Noto Sans Kannada

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Noto Sans Kannada is Noto Sans (similarity 99), then Open Sans and Hind Siliguri. Noto 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 | **Noto Sans** | 99 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-sans/](/fonts/noto-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Open Sans** | 94 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/open-sans/](/fonts/open-sans.md) |
| #3 | **Hind Siliguri** | 89 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/hind-siliguri/](/fonts/hind-siliguri.md) |
| #4 | **Lunasima** | 88 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/lunasima/](/fonts/lunasima.md) |
| #5 | **Mukta** | 86 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/mukta/](/fonts/mukta.md) |
| #6 | **Oxygen** | 85 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/oxygen/](/fonts/oxygen.md) |
| #7 | **Voces** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/voces/](/fonts/voces.md) |
| #8 | **Telex** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/telex/](/fonts/telex.md) |
| #9 | **Nebula Sans** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nebula-sans/](/fonts/nebula-sans.md) |
| #10 | **Comme** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/comme/](/fonts/comme.md) |
| #11 | **AR One Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/ar-one-sans/](/fonts/ar-one-sans.md) |
| #12 | **Funnel Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/funnel-sans/](/fonts/funnel-sans.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Noto Sans Telugu** (Telu): Similarity 97, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-telugu/](/fonts/noto-sans-telugu.md)
- **Noto Sans Hebrew** (Hebr): Similarity 97, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew/](/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew.md)
- **Khula** (Deva): Similarity 95, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/khula/](/fonts/khula.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-kannada.json](/api/fonts-like/noto-sans-kannada.json).