# Fonts Like Special Gothic Expanded One

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Special Gothic Expanded One is Days One (similarity 78), then BBH Hegarty and Archivo Black. Days One 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 | **Days One** | 78 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/days-one/](/fonts/days-one.md) |
| #2 | **BBH Hegarty** | 75 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/bbh-hegarty/](/fonts/bbh-hegarty.md) |
| #3 | **Archivo Black** | 71 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/archivo-black/](/fonts/archivo-black.md) |
| #4 | **Unbounded** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/unbounded/](/fonts/unbounded.md) |
| #5 | **Krona One** | 66 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/krona-one/](/fonts/krona-one.md) |
| #6 | **Prosto One** | 65 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/prosto-one/](/fonts/prosto-one.md) |
| #7 | **Goldman** | 64 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/goldman/](/fonts/goldman.md) |
| #8 | **Science Gothic** | 62 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/science-gothic/](/fonts/science-gothic.md) |
| #9 | **Zalando Sans Expanded** | 61 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/zalando-sans-expanded/](/fonts/zalando-sans-expanded.md) |
| #10 | **Goblin One** | 61 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/goblin-one/](/fonts/goblin-one.md) |
| #11 | **Russo One** | 60 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/russo-one/](/fonts/russo-one.md) |
| #12 | **Poller One** | 60 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/poller-one/](/fonts/poller-one.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Dela Gothic One** (Jpan): Similarity 75, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/dela-gothic-one/](/fonts/dela-gothic-one.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/special-gothic-expanded-one.json](/api/fonts-like/special-gothic-expanded-one.json).