# Fonts Like Parkinsans

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Parkinsans is Poppins (similarity 87), then Work Sans and Onest. Poppins 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 | **Poppins** | 87 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/poppins/](/fonts/poppins.md) |
| #2 | **Work Sans** | 72 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/work-sans/](/fonts/work-sans.md) |
| #3 | **Onest** | 72 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/onest/](/fonts/onest.md) |
| #4 | **Golos Text** | 72 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/golos-text/](/fonts/golos-text.md) |
| #5 | **Stack Sans Text** | 72 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/stack-sans-text/](/fonts/stack-sans-text.md) |
| #6 | **Host Grotesk** | 71 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/host-grotesk/](/fonts/host-grotesk.md) |
| #7 | **DM Sans** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/dm-sans/](/fonts/dm-sans.md) |
| #8 | **Stack Sans Notch** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/stack-sans-notch/](/fonts/stack-sans-notch.md) |
| #9 | **Adwaita Sans** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/adwaita-sans/](/fonts/adwaita-sans.md) |
| #10 | **Apfel Grotezk** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/apfel-grotezk/](/fonts/apfel-grotezk.md) |
| #11 | **Bricolage Grotesque** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/bricolage-grotesque/](/fonts/bricolage-grotesque.md) |
| #12 | **Aileron** | 69 / 100 | CC0-1.0 | [/fonts/aileron/](/fonts/aileron.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Kantumruy Pro** (Khmr): Similarity 71, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/kantumruy-pro/](/fonts/kantumruy-pro.md)
- **Kripa** (Deva): Similarity 69, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/kripa/](/fonts/kripa.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/parkinsans.json](/api/fonts-like/parkinsans.json).