# Fonts Like Verdana

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Verdana is DejaVu Sans (similarity 87), then Clear Sans and Noto Sans. DejaVu Sans is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Reference Font Profile

- **Family**: Verdana
- **Kind**: system font (no preview: commercial font, described from its sources)
- **Designer**: Matthew Carter
- **Vendor**: Microsoft Corp.
- **Supplied With**: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1
- **Licence**: LicenseRef-Windows-Font
- **Sources**:
  - [designers, vendor, products](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/verdana) (read 2026-10-22)

### Fallback CSS Stack

```css
font-family: "Verdana", "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif;
```

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **DejaVu Sans** | 87 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/dejavu-sans/](/fonts/dejavu-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Clear Sans** | 87 / 100 | Apache-2.0 | [/fonts/clear-sans/](/fonts/clear-sans.md) |
| #3 | **Noto Sans** | 83 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/noto-sans/](/fonts/noto-sans.md) |
| #4 | **Lunasima** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/lunasima/](/fonts/lunasima.md) |
| #5 | **Radio Canada** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/radio-canada/](/fonts/radio-canada.md) |
| #6 | **Maven Pro** | 82 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/maven-pro/](/fonts/maven-pro.md) |
| #7 | **Telex** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/telex/](/fonts/telex.md) |
| #8 | **PT Sans Caption** | 81 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pt-sans-caption/](/fonts/pt-sans-caption.md) |
| #9 | **Golos Text** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/golos-text/](/fonts/golos-text.md) |
| #10 | **Open Sans** | 80 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/open-sans/](/fonts/open-sans.md) |
| #11 | **Funnel Sans** | 79 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/funnel-sans/](/fonts/funnel-sans.md) |
| #12 | **Ubuntu** | 79 / 100 | UFL-1.0 | [/fonts/ubuntu/](/fonts/ubuntu.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Noto Sans Hebrew** (Hebr): Similarity 82, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew/](/fonts/noto-sans-hebrew.md)
- **Amiko** (Deva): Similarity 82, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/amiko/](/fonts/amiko.md)
- **Noto Sans Kannada** (Knda): Similarity 82, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/noto-sans-kannada/](/fonts/noto-sans-kannada.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/verdana.json](/api/fonts-like/verdana.json).