# Fonts Like Pontano Sans

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Pontano Sans is Roboto Flex (similarity 83), then Special Gothic and Public Sans. Roboto Flex 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 | **Roboto Flex** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/roboto-flex/](/fonts/roboto-flex.md) |
| #2 | **Special Gothic** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/special-gothic/](/fonts/special-gothic.md) |
| #3 | **Public Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/public-sans/](/fonts/public-sans.md) |
| #4 | **Inter Tight** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/inter-tight/](/fonts/inter-tight.md) |
| #5 | **Zalando Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/zalando-sans/](/fonts/zalando-sans.md) |
| #6 | **Almarai** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/almarai/](/fonts/almarai.md) |
| #7 | **Libre Franklin** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/libre-franklin/](/fonts/libre-franklin.md) |
| #8 | **Yantramanav** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/yantramanav/](/fonts/yantramanav.md) |
| #9 | **Pretendard** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pretendard/](/fonts/pretendard.md) |
| #10 | **Heebo** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/heebo/](/fonts/heebo.md) |
| #11 | **Miranda Sans** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/miranda-sans/](/fonts/miranda-sans.md) |
| #12 | **Istok Web** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/istok-web/](/fonts/istok-web.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Pavanam** (Taml): Similarity 96, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/pavanam/](/fonts/pavanam.md)
- **Mingzat** (Lepc): Similarity 82, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/mingzat/](/fonts/mingzat.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/pontano-sans.json](/api/fonts-like/pontano-sans.json).