# Fonts Like Palatino Linotype

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Palatino Linotype is Average (similarity 76), then Caudex and Lora. Average is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Reference Font Profile

- **Family**: Palatino Linotype
- **Kind**: system font (no preview: commercial font, described from its sources)
- **Designer**: Hermann Zapf
- **Supplied With**: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1
- **Licence**: LicenseRef-Windows-Font
- **Sources**:
  - [designers, vendor, products](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/palatino-linotype) (read 2026-10-22)

### Fallback CSS Stack

```css
font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Average", serif;
```

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Average** | 76 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/average/](/fonts/average.md) |
| #2 | **Caudex** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/caudex/](/fonts/caudex.md) |
| #3 | **Lora** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/lora/](/fonts/lora.md) |
| #4 | **Simonetta** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/simonetta/](/fonts/simonetta.md) |
| #5 | **Spectral** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/spectral/](/fonts/spectral.md) |
| #6 | **Castoro** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/castoro/](/fonts/castoro.md) |
| #7 | **Libertinus Serif** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/libertinus-serif/](/fonts/libertinus-serif.md) |
| #8 | **Newsreader** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/newsreader/](/fonts/newsreader.md) |
| #9 | **Libre Baskerville** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/libre-baskerville/](/fonts/libre-baskerville.md) |
| #10 | **Lustria** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/lustria/](/fonts/lustria.md) |
| #11 | **STIX Two Text** | 66 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/stix-two-text/](/fonts/stix-two-text.md) |
| #12 | **Adamina** | 65 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/adamina/](/fonts/adamina.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Sumana** (Deva): Similarity 69, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/sumana/](/fonts/sumana.md)
- **Gulzar** (Arab): Similarity 68, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/gulzar/](/fonts/gulzar.md)
- **Hahmlet** (Kore): Similarity 68, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/hahmlet/](/fonts/hahmlet.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/palatino-linotype.json](/api/fonts-like/palatino-linotype.json).