# Fonts Like Voltaire

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

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to Voltaire is BenchNine (similarity 72), then Special Gothic Condensed One and Oswald. BenchNine 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 | **BenchNine** | 72 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/benchnine/](/fonts/benchnine.md) |
| #2 | **Special Gothic Condensed One** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/special-gothic-condensed-one/](/fonts/special-gothic-condensed-one.md) |
| #3 | **Oswald** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/oswald/](/fonts/oswald.md) |
| #4 | **Sofia Sans Extra Condensed** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/sofia-sans-extra-condensed/](/fonts/sofia-sans-extra-condensed.md) |
| #5 | **Pathway Gothic One** | 67 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/pathway-gothic-one/](/fonts/pathway-gothic-one.md) |
| #6 | **Cossette Titre** | 66 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/cossette-titre/](/fonts/cossette-titre.md) |
| #7 | **Fjalla One** | 66 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/fjalla-one/](/fonts/fjalla-one.md) |
| #8 | **Yanone Kaffeesatz** | 65 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/yanone-kaffeesatz/](/fonts/yanone-kaffeesatz.md) |
| #9 | **Saira Extra Condensed** | 65 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/saira-extra-condensed/](/fonts/saira-extra-condensed.md) |
| #10 | **Share** | 65 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/share/](/fonts/share.md) |
| #11 | **Barlow Condensed** | 64 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/barlow-condensed/](/fonts/barlow-condensed.md) |
| #12 | **Mohave** | 64 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/mohave/](/fonts/mohave.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **BIZ UDGothic** (Jpan): Similarity 65, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/biz-udgothic/](/fonts/biz-udgothic.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/voltaire.json](/api/fonts-like/voltaire.json).