Skip to content
fontkind.

Fonts similar to Sankofa Display

The fonts most like Sankofa Display are Magnetic Drawing (67 out of 100), Hanalei (59) and Sunday Collaborative Alphabet (56), then 97 more free fonts, compared letter by letter. Measured, the twelve closest have x-heights of 41–72% of the em (Sankofa Display’s is 45%) and lowercase letters 44–65% of the em wide (45%), and three of them are sans serifs too. Where they differ, most are wider (eleven of twelve).

Matched by the letters themselves · early version

65 px
Default
0 em

The original · Sankofa Display

Find the font. Find its kind.

Like Sankofa Display, but…

  1. 67match · #1

    Magnetic Drawing

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    x-height 54% taller · 31% wider · 50% lighter

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in E, H, and Y

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like Magnetic Drawing

  2. 59match · #2

    Hanalei

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    x-height 50% taller · 18% wider

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in H, E, and K

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like Hanalei

  3. 56match · #3

    Sunday Collaborative Alphabet

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    x-height 60% taller · 36% wider · 23% heavier

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in N, X, and K

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like Sunday Collaborative Alphabet

  4. 48match · #4

    Cabin Sketch

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    32% heavier · 13% wider · x-height 11% taller

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in U, v, and N

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like Cabin Sketch

  5. 48match · #5

    Rubik Burned

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    36% wider · x-height 21% taller · 33% heavier

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in f, H, and Z

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like Rubik Burned

  6. 46match · #6

    Operation Napalm

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    x-height 52% taller · 16% wider · 15% heavier

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in Z, J, and D

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like Operation Napalm

  7. 44match · #7

    Anthony

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    x-height 9% shorter · 9% wider

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in Z, L, and N

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like Anthony

  8. 42match · #8

    Rock 3D

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    42% wider · x-height 26% taller · 51% lighter

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in T, f, and H

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like Rock 3D

  9. 41match · #9

    Kaeru Kaeru

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    82% heavier · x-height 14% taller · 9% wider

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in u, H, and S

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like Kaeru Kaeru

  10. 41match · #10

    ZCOOL KuaiLe

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    x-height 27% taller · 43% heavier · 19% wider

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in N, T, and V

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like ZCOOL KuaiLe

  11. 40match · #11

    Eureka

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    x-height 16% taller · 10% heavier

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in f, F, and H

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like Eureka

  12. 40match · #12

    Segment

    Find the font. Find its kind.

    45% wider · 60% lighter · x-height 7% taller

    Differs most from Sankofa Display in H, E, and F

    Compare with Sankofa DisplayFonts like Segment

← Back to Sankofa Display

The 100 fonts like Sankofa Display, measured

Sankofa Display has a shorter x-height than most fonts like it: 82 of the 100 have a taller x-height and 12 a shorter one. Few keep Sankofa Display’s proportions: at most 10 keep its width, within 3%, Eureka the closest of them. 17 are sans serifs like Sankofa Display, and 69 display faces, 11 handwriting faces, 2 monospaced fonts and 1 serif come close too, Magnetic Drawing the closest of them. They part from Sankofa Display most often in H (48 of the 100), Z (26) and k (18).

Questions about fonts like Sankofa Display

What is the closest font to Sankofa Display?

Magnetic Drawing, at 67 out of 100 in our letter-by-letter match: next to Sankofa Display, it is 31% wider and 50% lighter, with an x-height 54% taller. After it come Hanalei (59) and Sunday Collaborative Alphabet (56).

Is there a free alternative to Sankofa Display?

Sankofa Display is free itself, under the SIL Open Font License. For another font with its feel, every font on this page is free too, and Magnetic Drawing, Hanalei and Sunday Collaborative Alphabet come closest. To change fonts without moving your lines much, Formera sets running text 2.3% narrower, with an x-height 2.7% shorter.