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.
Side-by-side comparison
Top lookalikes compared at the same size Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Top lookalikes: licence permissions
Commercial rights side by sideBenchNineOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed
Special Gothic Condensed OneOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed
OswaldOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed
All 12 open lookalikes, ranked
Comparison based on letter shape and edge texture#1
BenchNine OFL-1.1
Similarity 72 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#2
Special Gothic Condensed One OFL-1.1
Similarity 70 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#3
Oswald OFL-1.1
Similarity 70 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#4
Sofia Sans Extra Condensed OFL-1.1
Similarity 67 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#5
Pathway Gothic One OFL-1.1
Similarity 67 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#6
Cossette Titre OFL-1.1
Similarity 66 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#7
Fjalla One OFL-1.1
Similarity 66 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#8
Yanone Kaffeesatz OFL-1.1
Similarity 65 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#9
Saira Extra Condensed OFL-1.1
Similarity 65 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#10
Share OFL-1.1
Similarity 65 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#11
Barlow Condensed OFL-1.1
Similarity 64 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#12
Mohave OFL-1.1
Similarity 64 — 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Fonts made for other scripts with similar Latin letters
How the similarity score works
Each score is calculated by comparing 62 letters and digits (A-Z a-z 0-9) rendered at a 160px cap height on a 32×32 grid with 3px gaussian blur, combined with edge-orientation texture (weighted at 15%).
Scores are normalized on a standardized scale: 100 represents identical letterforms, and 0 represents an average pair among the 1571 fonts compared.