Guides
Everything here answers one designer question well, especially the licensing questions most font sites leave you to work out from a readme file.
Licensing
- Can I Use Google Fonts Commercially? Every Scenario Answered Yes: logos, merch, client work, apps, YouTube, Canva, ebooks. What Google Fonts licenses permit, the one thing you can't do, and the EU self-hosting rule.
- Font Licenses Explained: Personal Use, Commercial Use, OFL, and More What font licenses actually permit: personal use, donationware, demo, OFL, Apache. Why 'free' rarely means commercially free, and how to stay safe.
- Personal Use vs Commercial Use Fonts: Where the Line Actually Is What actually counts as commercial font use, why a free download is not a free license, and how to check a font's license before you publish anything.
- The SIL Open Font License (OFL) in Plain English What the SIL OFL 1.1 actually permits: commercial use, logos, embedding, modification. The two real restrictions, Reserved Font Names, and common myths.
Using type well
- Best Resume Fonts (Free, Professional, ATS-Safe) 10 free resume fonts that read cleanly at 10-11pt, look professional, and survive applicant tracking systems. Plus sizing and spacing guidance.
- Best Free Fonts for Cricut You Can Legally Sell With 18 free Cricut fonts verified for commercial use. Bold scripts, clean sans, chunky display, and monogram picks that cut cleanly and sell legally.
- How to Choose Fonts: A Practical Guide for Non-Designers A step-by-step method for picking fonts that work: job first, legibility checks, tone matching, and the tests to run before you commit.
- How to Identify a Font: 6 Free Tools Compared Six free ways to identify a font from an image or website, what each tool does well, where each fails, and how to find a free commercial-safe match.
- Font Pairing: Rules That Actually Work (With Free Examples) The contrast principle, superfamilies, x-height matching, and 10 verified pairings of free commercial-use fonts you can copy today.