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Fonts similar to Drama Sans

The fonts most like Drama Sans are Playpen Sans (88 out of 100), Cause (85) and Comic Mono (82), then 97 more free fonts, compared letter by letter. Measured, the twelve closest have x-heights of 44–76% of the em (Drama Sans’s is 54%) and lowercase letters 43–72% of the em wide (52%), and ten of them are handwriting faces too. Where they differ, most are lighter (seven of twelve).

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  1. 88match · #1

    Playpen Sans

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    Nearly identical proportions

    Differs most from Drama Sans in y, G, and d

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  2. 85match · #2

    Cause

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    21% lighter · x-height 6% shorter · 3% narrower

    Differs most from Drama Sans in e, O, and 1

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  3. 82match · #3

    Comic Mono

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    more stroke contrast · x-height 6% shorter · 5% wider

    Differs most from Drama Sans in l, 0, and i

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  4. 76match · #4

    Itim

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    x-height 18% shorter · more stroke contrast · 7% narrower

    Differs most from Drama Sans in g, a, and 4

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  5. 76match · #5

    Delius Unicase

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    x-height 41% taller · 38% wider · 33% lighter

    Differs most from Drama Sans in D, O, and B

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  6. 75match · #6

    BoonJot

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    more stroke contrast · x-height 7% shorter · 10% lighter

    Differs most from Drama Sans in 8, r, and y

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  7. 75match · #7

    Fuzzy Bubbles

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    23% lighter · 8% wider

    Differs most from Drama Sans in 0, U, and 8

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  8. 73match · #8

    Short Stack

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    20% wider · 17% lighter

    Differs most from Drama Sans in 8, 6, and 9

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  9. 72match · #9

    Comic Relief

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    x-height 5% shorter · 7% heavier

    Differs most from Drama Sans in d, p, and e

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  10. 68match · #10

    Schoolbell

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    16% narrower · x-height 13% shorter

    Differs most from Drama Sans in 8, 9, and 5

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  11. 68match · #11

    Coming Soon

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    33% lighter

    Differs most from Drama Sans in 0, 4, and 6

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  12. 68match · #12

    Delius

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    19% lighter · x-height 5% shorter · more stroke contrast

    Differs most from Drama Sans in y, D, and 0

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The 100 fonts like Drama Sans, measured

Drama Sans has a taller x-height than most fonts like it: 72 of the 100 have a shorter x-height and 12 a taller one. Few keep Drama Sans’s proportions: at most 19 keep its weight on the page, within 6%, Playpen Sans the closest of them. 67 are handwriting faces like Drama Sans, and 25 display faces, 5 sans serifs and 3 monospaced fonts come close too, Comic Mono the closest of them. They part from Drama Sans most often in 0 (30 of the 100), y (29) and 8 (29).

Questions about fonts like Drama Sans

What is the closest font to Drama Sans?

Playpen Sans, at 88 out of 100 in our letter-by-letter match: next to Drama Sans, it has nearly identical proportions. After it come Cause (85) and Comic Mono (82).

Is there a free alternative to Drama Sans?

Drama Sans is free itself, under the SIL Open Font License. For another font with its feel, every font on this page is free too, and Playpen Sans, Cause and Comic Mono come closest. To change fonts without moving your lines much, Coming Soon sets running text 1.1% narrower, with an x-height 1.0% taller.