# Fonts Like Rye

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Rye is Calistoga (similarity 73), then Yeseva One and Caprasimo. Calistoga 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 | **Calistoga** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/calistoga/](/fonts/calistoga.md) |
| #2 | **Yeseva One** | 61 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/yeseva-one/](/fonts/yeseva-one.md) |
| #3 | **Caprasimo** | 60 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/caprasimo/](/fonts/caprasimo.md) |
| #4 | **Patua One** | 59 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/patua-one/](/fonts/patua-one.md) |
| #5 | **Marko One** | 58 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/marko-one/](/fonts/marko-one.md) |
| #6 | **DM Serif Text** | 57 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/dm-serif-text/](/fonts/dm-serif-text.md) |
| #7 | **Averia Serif Libre** | 57 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/averia-serif-libre/](/fonts/averia-serif-libre.md) |
| #8 | **Quando** | 57 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/quando/](/fonts/quando.md) |
| #9 | **Poetsen One** | 56 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/poetsen-one/](/fonts/poetsen-one.md) |
| #10 | **Bigshot One** | 55 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/bigshot-one/](/fonts/bigshot-one.md) |
| #11 | **Stardos Stencil** | 55 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/stardos-stencil/](/fonts/stardos-stencil.md) |
| #12 | **Concert One** | 55 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/concert-one/](/fonts/concert-one.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Song Myung** (Kore): Similarity 61, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/song-myung/](/fonts/song-myung.md)
- **Katibeh** (Arab): Similarity 60, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/katibeh/](/fonts/katibeh.md)
- **Idiqlat** (Syrc): Similarity 59, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/idiqlat/](/fonts/idiqlat.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/rye.json](/api/fonts-like/rye.json).