Sheet of 1,959 familiesProofed 3 Nov 2026google/fonts @ 2fe1e8c
Proofing desk · 1,959 families · 3 Nov 2026
Which free fonts can you use commercially?
Practically all of them. Of the 1,959 families in the Google Fonts library, 1,944 sit in an open-licence folder: 1,904 OFL, 35 Apache 2.0 and 5 Ubuntu Font Licence. All allow commercial, web and logo use; OFL fonts just cannot be sold on their own.
Showing the 48 most-used families. Filters load the full index of 1,959.
Counted from Google’s family metadata and the licence folder each family sits in on github.com/google/fonts (snapshot 3 Nov 2026). Six families could not be matched to a folder by name; we show them as “licence unmatched” instead of guessing.
Families by category and licence, 3 Nov 2026
Category
Families
OFL 1.1
Apache 2.0
UFL 1.0
Variable
Sans Serif
722
714
4
3
293
Serif
354
348
3
0
104
Display
474
457
12
0
64
Handwriting
358
336
16
0
79
Monospace
51
49
0
2
25
All
1,959
1,904
35
5
565
565 families (29%) ship as variable fonts, and 135 cover at least one Chinese, Japanese or Korean subset (38 include Korean). Use the desk above to narrow by any of these.
Where to go from the desk
Licence checker — pick a family and a use (logo, app, merch, resale) and get the verdict with the clause it rests on.
Pairing tester — set a heading and body face side by side, with pairings computed from metadata.