SpongeBob font
The lettering of the show’s credits, title cards and famous time cards is its own, and it isn’t sold as a font: the one people pass around is a fan recreation, Some Time Later, traced from screenshots and free under the Open Font License. The other free fonts here were drawn on their own, with the same bouncy cartoon shapes.
The show’s own lettering · 9 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 9 free fonts
Pick a font to set your words in it at the top, up to six.
01picked by eye
The time cards, traced by a fan
02picked by eye
Bouncy fifties cartoon letters
03picked by eye
Heavy, wobbly brush
04picked by eye
Chunky and jumpy
05picked by eye
Soft, chewy cartoon
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.
81match with Kavoon
22% narrower · x-height 5% shorter
90match with Spicy Rice
58% wider · 25% lighter · more stroke contrast
86match with Spicy Rice
more stroke contrast · 43% lighter · 3% wider
91match with Chewy
more stroke contrast · x-height 6% taller · 5% wider
FontKind isn’t affiliated with SpongeBob 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 SpongeBob use?
The best-known font of the lettering of the credits, title cards and time cards is a fan recreation, traced by hand from screenshots and released under the Open Font License, with a warning that trademark law still applies. Source: 1001 Fonts , The recreation’s notes
02
Is the SpongeBob font free?
There is no font of it to buy. The fan recreation, Some Time Later, is free under the Open Font License, but its own notes warn that trademark law still applies to what you make with it. The fonts on this page are free, 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 comic 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 comic 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 SpongeBob 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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