Fonts like Noto Serif Hentaigana

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

Quick answer

The closest open font to Noto Serif Hentaigana is Noto Serif (similarity 98), then Noto Nastaliq Urdu and Inria Serif. Noto Serif is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

Side-by-side comparison

Top lookalikes compared at the same size
Target font Noto Serif Hentaigana OFL-1.1
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#1 Lookalike Noto Serif Similarity 98 OFL-1.1
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#2 Lookalike Noto Nastaliq Urdu Similarity 88 OFL-1.1
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#3 Lookalike Inria Serif Similarity 78 OFL-1.1
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Top lookalikes: licence permissions

Commercial rights side by side
Noto SerifOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed
Noto Nastaliq UrduOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed
Inria SerifOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed

All 12 open lookalikes, ranked

Comparison based on letter shape and edge texture
#1
Noto Serif OFL-1.1
Similarity 98 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#2
Similarity 88 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#3
Similarity 78 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#4
Similarity 76 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#5
Similarity 75 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#6
Similarity 75 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#7
PT Serif OFL-1.1
Similarity 75 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#8
Similarity 74 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#9
Domine OFL-1.1
Similarity 74 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#10
Similarity 73 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#11
Cambo OFL-1.1
Similarity 73 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#12
Roboto Slab Apache-2.0
Similarity 73 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Fonts made for other scripts with similar Latin letters

How the similarity score works

Each score is calculated by comparing 62 letters and digits (A-Z a-z 0-9) rendered at a 160px cap height on a 32ร—32 grid with 3px gaussian blur, combined with edge-orientation texture (weighted at 15%).

Scores are normalized on a standardized scale: 100 represents identical letterforms, and 0 represents an average pair among the 1571 fonts compared.

Computed on 2026-10-22 using glyph-shape + edge-texture v2.