Futura Black font
Futura Black is a stencil display face with high contrast and triangular serifs. It was first issued in 1929. It isn’t free: it is a commercial typeface. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Gravitas One02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Stardos Stencil03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Expletus Sans04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Kenia05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Emblema One06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
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Not measured against Futura Black: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Futura Black or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Futura Black
- First issued
- 1929Source: Wikipedia: Futura, Futura Black
- Class
- Stencil display face with high contrast and triangular serifsSource: Wikipedia: Futura, Futura Black
- Comes with
- Not with Windows 11, macOS Tahoe or Microsoft 365, by their own listsSource: Microsoft: Windows 11 font list , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe , Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Trademark
- Futura is a registered trademark of BauerTypes SL.Source: Monotype: trademarks
- Also
- Its uses include the title sequence of The Love Boat and the logo of the James Bond film No Time to Die.Source: Wikipedia: Futura, Futura Black
Read by hand on 2 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
Futura® is a trademark of BauerTypes SL. FontKind is not affiliated with BauerTypes SL, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Futura Black
Is Futura Black free?
No. Futura Black is a paid typeface, licensed by its foundry. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Can I use Futura Black in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Futura Black. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Futura Black isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Gravitas One, Stardos Stencil and Expletus Sans are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Futura Black?
FontKind hasn’t measured Futura Black: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Gravitas One, Stardos Stencil and Expletus Sans are fat-face serifs and stencil faces in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Futura Black.