# Fonts Like Radio Canada

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Radio Canada is Clear Sans (similarity 85), then Radio Canada Big and IBM Plex Sans. Clear Sans is released under the Apache License 2.0 and is free for commercial use.

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Clear Sans** | 85 / 100 | Apache-2.0 | [/fonts/clear-sans/](/fonts/clear-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Radio Canada Big** | 84 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/radio-canada-big/](/fonts/radio-canada-big.md) |
| #3 | **IBM Plex Sans** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/ibm-plex-sans/](/fonts/ibm-plex-sans.md) |
| #4 | **Inter** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/inter/](/fonts/inter.md) |
| #5 | **Pretendard** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pretendard/](/fonts/pretendard.md) |
| #6 | **Roboto Flex** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/roboto-flex/](/fonts/roboto-flex.md) |
| #7 | **Golos Text** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/golos-text/](/fonts/golos-text.md) |
| #8 | **Noto Sans** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-sans/](/fonts/noto-sans.md) |
| #9 | **Source Sans 3** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/source-sans-3/](/fonts/source-sans-3.md) |
| #10 | **Adwaita Sans** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/adwaita-sans/](/fonts/adwaita-sans.md) |
| #11 | **Overpass** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/overpass/](/fonts/overpass.md) |
| #12 | **Noto Sans JP** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-sans-jp/](/fonts/noto-sans-jp.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Amiko** (Deva): Similarity 83, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/amiko/](/fonts/amiko.md)
- **Narnoor** (Gong): Similarity 83, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/narnoor/](/fonts/narnoor.md)
- **Menbere** (Ethi): Similarity 80, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/menbere/](/fonts/menbere.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/radio-canada.json](/api/fonts-like/radio-canada.json).