Which letters tell fonts apart best?

Letters with the most parts: a two-storey g with its ear and lower loop, an R with its leg, an a with its bowl and tail. Straight letters such as l, I and 1 differ least between fonts, so pick them last.

Why does a font I expected not show up?

Only fonts that have every letter you picked are ranked. A font that sets capitals where small letters should be drops out as soon as you pick a lowercase one, so pick fewer letters to see more fonts.

How is this different from the similar fonts pages?

A similar page compares a font whole, letter by letter and trait by trait. Here only the letters you chose count, so the answer can follow the R of one font and the g of another at once.

Fonts with the letters you like

Pick the letters you like on any font’s page: this R from one font, this g from another. Every font’s letters are compared with your picks, each with the same letter, and the fonts whose letters look most like all of them come first.

Matched by the letters themselves · early version

01 / How it works

How the match works

2,035 fonts have their letters measured, 121,938 letters and figures in all.

Up to 6 letters: Capitals, small letters or figures, 6 at most, each from any font in the catalogue and as many fonts as you like.
Letter against letter: Each font that has all your letters is set against them one by one, its R against your R, its g against your g, and ranked by the average. The fonts your letters came from are left out.
Scored out of 100: A pair of letters scores 0 when it is as alike as a typical pair of fonts, and 100 when it is a closer match than nine fonts in ten can find for that letter.
One kind or all: The answer lists the 48 closest fonts, of every kind or of one: sans serifs, serifs, display faces, handwriting faces or monospaced fonts.

Letters you like, answered

Which letters tell fonts apart best?: Letters with the most parts: a two-storey g with its ear and lower loop, an R with its leg, an a with its bowl and tail. Straight letters such as l, I and 1 differ least between fonts, so pick them last.
Why does a font I expected not show up?: Only fonts that have every letter you picked are ranked. A font that sets capitals where small letters should be drops out as soon as you pick a lowercase one, so pick fewer letters to see more fonts.
How is this different from the similar fonts pages?: A similar page compares a font whole, letter by letter and trait by trait. Here only the letters you chose count, so the answer can follow the R of one font and the g of another at once.

The cursive alphabet

All 52 cursive letters, a to z and A to Z: how each one is written, where it joins the next, and practice sheets to print.

Open the cursive alphabet