Fontwell

Specimen & licence desk for open fonts

Sheet of 1,950 families Proofed 16 Oct 2026 google/fonts @ 47d54ca

Tool · licence checker

Can I use this font for that?

Choose a Google Fonts family and what you want to do with it. You get a verdict (yes, with conditions, or no), a plain-English explanation and the clause of the OFL 1.1, Apache 2.0 or UFL 1.0 it rests on.

What do you want to do?

Type a family name to see the verdict. Data as of 16 Oct 2026.

How the three licences answer each use

The same rules power the checker above. 1,904 families use the OFL, 35 Apache 2.0 and 5 the UFL (snapshot 16 Oct 2026).

Use-by-use verdicts, read from the licence texts
UseOFL 1.1Apache 2.0UFL 1.0
Use it on a website (self-hosted or via the Google Fonts API) yesPermission & Conditions: “use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify, redistribute”; condition 2 on including the notice and license.yesSection 2 (grant of copyright license) and Section 4 (redistribution conditions).with conditionsCondition 1 (notice and licence in each copy); Preamble on documents.
Print, packaging, posters, PDFs and other documents yesCondition 5: “The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the Font Software.”yesSection 2 (grant of copyright license).yesCondition 4 and Preamble (documents).
Set a logo or wordmark in it yesCondition 5 (documents are outside the license); OFL FAQ on logos and trademarks.yesSection 2 (grant); Section 6 (trademarks: no permission to use the licensor’s names or marks).yesCondition 4 (documents); “This licence does not grant any rights under trademark law.”
Put it on products I sell (T-shirts, mugs, book covers) yesCondition 5 (documents); condition 1 only forbids selling the font software by itself.yesSection 2 (grant of copyright license).yesCondition 4 (documents).
Bundle the font file inside an app, game or software I sell with conditionsCondition 2: bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the copyright notice and this license.with conditionsSection 4(a)–(d) redistribution conditions.with conditionsConditions 1 and 4.
Modify the font (add glyphs, change shapes, subset) and ship it with conditionsConditions 3, 4 and 5 (Reserved Font Names, author names, remain under OFL).with conditionsSection 4(b) (state changes) and 4(c) (retain notices).with conditionsCondition 2(a)–(c) (naming) and condition 4.
Sell the font file on its own (or in a font bundle) noCondition 1: “Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.”with conditionsSection 2 (grant includes distribution); Section 4 (conditions); Section 6 (trademarks).with conditionsDefinitions (“Propagate”); conditions 1, 2 and 4.
Use it in video, broadcast, social posts or ads yesCondition 5 (documents created using the Font Software).yesSection 2 (grant of copyright license).yesCondition 4 (documents).

Longer explanations: OFL vs Apache 2.0 vs UFL, fonts in logos, and the OFL clause by clause.

Frequently asked questions

Is this licence checker legal advice?
No. It is a plain-English reading of the licence texts with the relevant clause named, intended to help you find the right part of the licence quickly. For high-stakes uses, read the licence shipped with the font and consult a lawyer.
Where does the licence for each family come from?
From the folder each family sits in on the google/fonts GitHub repository (ofl, apache or ufl), checked on 16 Oct 2026. Families we cannot match by name are shown as unmatched rather than guessed.

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