# Fonts Like Public Sans

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Public Sans is Libre Franklin (similarity 91), then Special Gothic and Zalando Sans. Libre Franklin 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 | **Libre Franklin** | 91 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/libre-franklin/](/fonts/libre-franklin.md) |
| #2 | **Special Gothic** | 90 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/special-gothic/](/fonts/special-gothic.md) |
| #3 | **Zalando Sans** | 89 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/zalando-sans/](/fonts/zalando-sans.md) |
| #4 | **Momo Trust Sans** | 87 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/momo-trust-sans/](/fonts/momo-trust-sans.md) |
| #5 | **Geist** | 87 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/geist/](/fonts/geist.md) |
| #6 | **Miranda Sans** | 87 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/miranda-sans/](/fonts/miranda-sans.md) |
| #7 | **Pretendard** | 86 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pretendard/](/fonts/pretendard.md) |
| #8 | **Funnel Sans** | 86 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/funnel-sans/](/fonts/funnel-sans.md) |
| #9 | **Roboto Flex** | 85 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/roboto-flex/](/fonts/roboto-flex.md) |
| #10 | **Akt** | 85 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/akt/](/fonts/akt.md) |
| #11 | **Inter** | 85 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/inter/](/fonts/inter.md) |
| #12 | **Pliant** | 85 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pliant/](/fonts/pliant.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/public-sans.json](/api/fonts-like/public-sans.json).