# Fonts Like Nova Mono

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Nova Mono is Nova Round (similarity 61), then Nova Slim and Nova Flat. Nova Round is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## 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 Round** | 61 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nova-round/](/fonts/nova-round.md) |
| #2 | **Nova Slim** | 57 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nova-slim/](/fonts/nova-slim.md) |
| #3 | **Nova Flat** | 57 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nova-flat/](/fonts/nova-flat.md) |
| #4 | **Nova Square** | 54 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nova-square/](/fonts/nova-square.md) |
| #5 | **Maple Mono** | 49 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/maple-mono/](/fonts/maple-mono.md) |
| #6 | **Nova Cut** | 47 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nova-cut/](/fonts/nova-cut.md) |
| #7 | **Reddit Mono** | 47 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/reddit-mono/](/fonts/reddit-mono.md) |
| #8 | **Adwaita Mono** | 46 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/adwaita-mono/](/fonts/adwaita-mono.md) |
| #9 | **Pitagon Sans Mono** | 45 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pitagon-sans-mono/](/fonts/pitagon-sans-mono.md) |
| #10 | **JetBrains Mono** | 45 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/jetbrains-mono/](/fonts/jetbrains-mono.md) |
| #11 | **Iosevka Charon Mono** | 43 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/iosevka-charon-mono/](/fonts/iosevka-charon-mono.md) |
| #12 | **Iosevka Curly** | 42 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/iosevka-curly/](/fonts/iosevka-curly.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/nova-mono.json](/api/fonts-like/nova-mono.json).