Apple font
Apple’s system font is San Francisco, with SF Pro the family most people mean. Apple licenses it to registered developers, only to design and build for Apple’s own platforms. For a website, a poster or a logo, these free fonts come closest.
San Francisco, for Apple’s platforms only · 8 free fonts with its feel
01 / Free fonts with the same feel
Your picks, 3 of 6 picked
The fonts you pick set your words: up to six, from the list below.
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All 8 free fonts
Pick a font to set your words in it at the top, up to six.
01picked by eye
Grotesque made for screens
02picked by eye
Crisp and compact
03picked by eye
Neutral, a touch warmer
04picked by eye
Plain and even
Also close, by our data
Each of these is among the twelve fonts our similarity data finds closest to at least two of the fonts above, measured letter by letter.
80match with Inter
x-height 6% shorter
80match with Inter
x-height 5% shorter
81match with Inter
7% narrower · x-height 5% shorter · 8% heavier
82match with Instrument Sans
Nearly identical proportions
FontKind isn’t affiliated with Apple or its owners. The name is a trademark of its owner, used here only to say which lettering this page is about. The fonts shown are free fonts with a similar feel, not the original lettering.
02 / The lettering, and your questions
01
What font does Apple use?
San Francisco was first released to developers in 2014, and became the system font of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan in 2015. Source: Wikipedia: San Francisco
It is licensed to registered developers only for designing and building apps for Apple’s platforms. Source: Wikipedia: San Francisco , Apple: Fonts (not linked: the page sells or hands out the font)
ComparedSF Pro vs Helvetica
02
Is the Apple font free?
Not free to use anywhere: Apple licenses SF Pro only for designing apps for its platforms. Anywhere else, use a font like these, free for commercial use too, under open licences.
03
How do I use these fonts in Canva?
Search Canva’s font menu for the font’s name: Canva publishes no list of its fonts, so the menu is the only way to know. If it isn’t there, Canva Pro and Teams can upload a font file: get it from the font’s page here.
On the free plan, make a PNG of your words in the font generator and upload it as an image.
04
And in Cricut Design Space?
Install the font on your computer from its page here: Design Space lists the fonts on your computer as system fonts. Or type your words in the font generator and download the SVG: its letters come welded, to cut in one piece. More in Cricut fonts.
05
Can I use them on things I sell?
The fonts, yes: every font on this page is under an open licence that allows commercial use, on shirts, signs, cards and logos. But Apple and its logo are someone else’s trademarks: a design that copies the logo or uses the name can still need the owner’s permission. This is a plain answer, not legal advice.
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