# Fonts Like Qahiri

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Qahiri is Micro 5 Charted (similarity 26), then Jersey 10 Charted and Jersey 20 Charted. Micro 5 Charted is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

> Note: Scores under 50 indicate no open font is very close; these share some traits.

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Micro 5 Charted** | 26 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/micro-5-charted/](/fonts/micro-5-charted.md) |
| #2 | **Jersey 10 Charted** | 26 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/jersey-10-charted/](/fonts/jersey-10-charted.md) |
| #3 | **Jersey 20 Charted** | 20 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/jersey-20-charted/](/fonts/jersey-20-charted.md) |
| #4 | **Jersey 15 Charted** | 20 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/jersey-15-charted/](/fonts/jersey-15-charted.md) |
| #5 | **Jersey 25 Charted** | 14 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/jersey-25-charted/](/fonts/jersey-25-charted.md) |
| #6 | **Jacquard 24 Charted** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/jacquard-24-charted/](/fonts/jacquard-24-charted.md) |
| #7 | **Jacquard 12 Charted** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/jacquard-12-charted/](/fonts/jacquard-12-charted.md) |
| #8 | **Redacted** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/redacted/](/fonts/redacted.md) |
| #9 | **Libre Barcode 128 Text** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/libre-barcode-128-text/](/fonts/libre-barcode-128-text.md) |
| #10 | **Nabla** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/nabla/](/fonts/nabla.md) |
| #11 | **Pirata One** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pirata-one/](/fonts/pirata-one.md) |
| #12 | **League Gothic** | 0 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/league-gothic/](/fonts/league-gothic.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Karantina** (Hebr): Similarity 0, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/karantina/](/fonts/karantina.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/qahiri.json](/api/fonts-like/qahiri.json).