Montserrat's licence
“This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.”
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Questions · Fonts
Can I use Montserrat in a logo?
Yes
Yes. Montserrat is under the SIL Open Font License, which allows logos and commercial work.
Montserrat's licence file in the Google Fonts repository says it is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. That licence, and Google's FAQ, allow use in logos, branding and commercial products. Poppins' licence file says the same, and Inter, Roboto and Open Sans are also OFL families (linked below).
- Checked 22 October 2026
- 5 clauses quoted
- 5 official pages
What the licence says
Logos
“Yes, you can use Google Fonts within any logo.”
Any kind of design work
“Authors of fonts released under the OFL allow you to use their font software as such for any kind of design work.”
The limit
“Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.”
Poppins' licence
“This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.”
What this means for client work
- You can deliver a Montserrat logo as artwork and hand the font files to the client with its OFL.txt.
- Montserrat's licence header in google/fonts doesn't declare a Reserved Font Name. Some other families (for example Lato, Raleway and Playfair Display) do, which matters only if you modify the font itself.
- Montserrat is one of the most-used fonts on the web, which matters for distinctiveness more than for licensing.
FAQ
Is Montserrat free for commercial use?
Yes. It's under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and Google's FAQ says Google Fonts can be used commercially, even inside a product that is sold.
Is Poppins free for commercial use too?
Poppins' licence file in google/fonts also says it is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so the same answer applies.
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Pages we read
- https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/ofl/montserrat/OFL.txt
- https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq
- https://openfontlicense.org/ofl-faq/
- https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/
- https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/ofl/poppins/OFL.txt
Quotes are copied verbatim from these official pages as they read on 22 October 2026. Full answers: Google Fonts.