Fonts like Nova Round

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

Quick answer

The closest open font to Nova Round is Nova Slim (similarity 94), then Nova Flat and Nova Square. Nova Slim 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 Nova Round OFL-1.1
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#1 Lookalike Nova Slim Similarity 94 OFL-1.1
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#2 Lookalike Nova Flat Similarity 93 OFL-1.1
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#3 Lookalike Nova Square Similarity 90 OFL-1.1
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Top lookalikes: licence permissions

Commercial rights side by side
Nova SlimOFL-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
Nova FlatOFL-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
Nova SquareOFL-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

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#1
Nova Slim OFL-1.1
Similarity 94 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#2
Nova Flat OFL-1.1
Similarity 93 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#3
Similarity 90 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#4
Nova Cut OFL-1.1
Similarity 80 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#5
Nova Oval OFL-1.1
Similarity 75 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#6
Nova Mono OFL-1.1
Similarity 61 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#7
Madimi One OFL-1.1
Similarity 51 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#8
Signika OFL-1.1
Similarity 47 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#9
Dosis OFL-1.1
Similarity 45 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#10
Iceberg OFL-1.1
Similarity 44 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#11
Similarity 44 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#12
Similarity 44 โ€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
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.