Are Google Fonts really free for commercial use?

Yes. Every font on Google Fonts is licensed under the SIL Open Font License or a similarly permissive open-source license. You can use them in client work, brand systems, e-commerce stores, apps, packaging, and printed products without paying or attributing.

Do I need to credit Google Fonts when I use one?

No. The SIL Open Font License does not require attribution in the products you ship. You can use the font as-is, modified, or embedded without crediting Google or the original designer in your work.

Can I sell a product that uses a Google Font?

Yes. The license covers selling products that use the font, whether that's a physical product (business cards, packaging, books) or a digital product (apps, websites, ebooks). The only restriction is you can't sell the font itself as a standalone product.

Can I modify a Google Font?

Yes. The SIL Open Font License explicitly permits modification. You can adjust letterforms, add glyphs, change metrics, and redistribute the modified version. The modified font must be released under the same license.

Free Google Fonts for Commercial Use

Every font on Google Fonts is genuinely free, including for commercial use. No licensing fees, no per-seat costs, no asterisks. The fonts ship under the SIL Open Font License, which permits use in client work, brand systems, packaging, and any printed or digital product you ship. Free Google Fonts span every category, from workhorse sans serif fonts for product UI to editorial serif fonts for long-form reading.

Free Google Fonts to download

Click any font to preview it with your own text and download the full family for free.

Inter

Quiet confidence reads better than loud certainty.

Roboto

Good design solves problems before anyone notices them.

Open Sans

Good design solves problems before anyone notices them.

Lato

Built for teams that ship every week.

Source Sans 3

Less ornament, more clarity. That is the working brief.

IBM Plex Sans

Less ornament, more clarity. That is the working brief.

Work Sans

A typeface should feel like the voice of the brand.

Playfair Display

Type that has earned its quiet does not need to raise its voice.

Lora

The orchard sat above the river, twelve acres of pear trees.

Merriweather

The book opens quietly and closes the same way.

EB Garamond

The book opens quietly and closes the same way.

Manrope

Type is a quiet decision that shapes the whole system.

What free actually means

to license, ship, or modify

Every font on this page costs nothing to use, redistribute, embed in apps, or modify. The Open Font License covers personal projects, client work, brand systems, packaging, and any printed or digital product you sell.

attribution required in your work

The license does not require you to credit Google or the original designer in the products you ship. Use the font as-is or modified, embedded in apps or rendered on a billboard, without naming the typeface anywhere visible.

All

1,800+ Google Fonts qualify

The Open Font License covers every typeface in the Google Fonts catalog, not just the popular picks. Browse over a thousand families, from production-grade workhorses to experimental display faces, all under the same terms.

Once

and you own that file forever

Download is a one-time event. The TTF files live on your machine, get bundled with your projects, and ship inside your design files indefinitely. There’s no subscription, no expiring license, no annual renewal.

Where you can ship them

Inter Lora DM Sans

Client work and brand systems

Build a logo, a website, or a complete brand identity for a paying client. Charge whatever you want for the work. The license covers commercial use including the systems you ship to clients.

Playfair Display Merriweather Oswald

Physical and printed products

Print on business cards, posters, packaging, books, merchandise, signage, and anything else that gets manufactured. The license covers print exactly the same way it covers screens.

Roboto Open Sans Source Sans 3

Apps, websites, and ebooks

Embed fonts in iOS and Android apps, web fonts on production sites, ebooks shipped to Kindle and Apple Books. Every modern delivery format is covered without any additional licensing tier.

Work Sans Manrope EB Garamond

Modified and redistributed fonts

Adjust letterforms, add glyphs, change metrics, fork the font for your own brand. The only requirement is that the modified version stays under the same Open Font License terms.

The Open Font License in plain language

Use

anywhere, in anything

Personal projects, client work, products you sell, brand systems for hire. The license imposes no limits on the context in which the font appears, on the size of the audience, or on the revenue the surrounding work generates.

Modify

freely without restriction

Adjust kerning, redraw glyphs, add ligatures, change weights, build a custom variant. The license is explicit that modification is encouraged, provided the modified version retains the same OFL terms.

Embed

in apps, ebooks, and PDFs

Bundle the font inside iOS apps, Android apps, desktop applications, EPUB ebooks, and PDF files. The font becomes part of the product you ship without triggering any additional licensing requirement.

Don’t

sell the font itself, alone

The single restriction: you can’t sell the font file as a standalone product. You can sell anything made WITH the font, but the font itself stays free. That’s the whole of the OFL’s commercial limitation.

The SIL Open Font License (OFL) is a permissive open-source license written specifically for typefaces. It covers commercial use, embedding fonts in documents, modifying letterforms, and shipping fonts inside applications and websites. The only thing it prohibits is selling the font itself as a standalone product. For everything else, including selling products that USE the font, you’re free to ship without paying or attributing. The library also includes hundreds of display fonts for posters, packaging, and branded headlines. Below are some of the most reliable free Google Fonts to start with.

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