# Fonts for logos and wordmarks > Geometric, rounded, wide and classical open-license typefaces with enough character to carry a name on their own. A wordmark is a handful of letters that will be seen thousands of times, often tiny: a browser tab, an app icon, the corner of a receipt. So the test for a logo typeface is different from the test for a text face. You are not judging the whole alphabet. You are judging the six or eight letters in the name, and how they sit next to each other. Type the actual name before you decide anything. Look for awkward pairs, such as a gap after a capital T or two round letters crowding each other, and check whether the name works in both capitals and lowercase. Simple, even strokes survive small sizes and single-color printing better than fine hairlines do. Distinctive details help memory: a single-story a, an unusual G, a very wide stance. Since a logo usually needs supporting type for a tagline or a website, a family with several weights is a practical advantage. Open licenses permit modifying the outlines, which matters because nearly every finished wordmark has adjusted spacing or a redrawn letter. How these were chosen: Families tagged for logos or branding, chosen for a clear structural idea (geometric, rounded, wide, classical or unicase) rather than for weight alone. ## Fonts (17) - [Outfit](https://trendhub.net/fonts/outfit.markdown) (Sans Serif, 9 styles · variable, OFL): Made as a company brand typeface: a geometric sans across nine weights from Thin to Black. - [Montserrat](https://trendhub.net/fonts/montserrat.markdown) (Sans Serif, 18 styles · variable, OFL): Wide geometric capitals in 18 styles, enough to build a wordmark and its supporting text from one family. - [Raleway](https://trendhub.net/fonts/raleway.markdown) (Sans Serif, 18 styles · variable, OFL): Began as a single thin weight; now nine weights with italics, with a light end suited to refined marks. - [Quicksand](https://trendhub.net/fonts/quicksand.markdown) (Sans Serif, 5 styles · variable, OFL): Rounded geometric letters from Light to Bold for soft, approachable names. - [Space Grotesk](https://trendhub.net/fonts/space-grotesk.markdown) (Sans Serif, 5 styles · variable, OFL): Keeps the quirks of the fixed-width face it derives from, giving plain words a recognizable texture. - [Playfair Display](https://trendhub.net/fonts/playfair-display.markdown) (Serif, 12 styles · variable, OFL): High stroke contrast at large sizes for editorial, fashion and cultural names. - [Comfortaa](https://trendhub.net/fonts/comfortaa.markdown) (Display, 5 styles · variable, OFL): Circular bowls and rounded strokes drawn for large sizes, with a weight axis from 300 to 700. - [Righteous](https://trendhub.net/fonts/righteous.markdown) (Display, 1 style, OFL): A geometric deco face in one weight, drawn on a grid after poster capitals. - [Cinzel](https://trendhub.net/fonts/cinzel.markdown) (Serif, 6 styles · variable, OFL): All-capitals letters modeled on first-century Roman inscriptions, variable from Regular to Black. - [League Spartan](https://trendhub.net/fonts/league-spartan.markdown) (Sans Serif, 9 styles · variable, OFL): A geometric sans variable from 100 to 900, with a heavy end that makes compact marks. - [Josefin Sans](https://trendhub.net/fonts/josefin-sans.markdown) (Sans Serif, 14 styles · variable, OFL): An x-height at half the cap height gives lowercase wordmarks a 1920s elegance. - [Syncopate](https://trendhub.net/fonts/syncopate.markdown) (Display, 2 styles, Apache 2.0): Unicase letters at capital height set a name as one even band of thin, wide forms; Regular and Bold. - [Montserrat Alternates](https://trendhub.net/fonts/montserrat-alternates.markdown) (Sans Serif, 18 styles, OFL): Montserrat with special letterforms, such as an arched A and a single-story a, for a less familiar mark. - [Unbounded](https://trendhub.net/fonts/unbounded.markdown) (Sans Serif, 8 styles · variable, OFL): Letters about as wide as they are tall, so a short name fills a line; eight weights without italics, for Latin and Cyrillic. - [Krona One](https://trendhub.net/fonts/krona-one.markdown) (Sans Serif, 1 style, OFL): A wide, low-contrast sans in one weight, inspired by early 20th-century Swedish posters. - [MuseoModerno](https://trendhub.net/fonts/museomoderno.markdown) (Display, 18 styles · variable, OFL): Drawn for the identity of an art museum in Buenos Aires, with M and W built from rounded arches; nine weights with italics. - [Gruppo](https://trendhub.net/fonts/gruppo.markdown) (Display, 1 style, OFL): Thin, wide letters with rounded-rectangle curves, drawn for understated branding. ## FAQs ### Can I use an open-license font in a logo I trademark? The licenses used here, the SIL Open Font License and, for one family, Apache 2.0, allow commercial use, including in logos, and place no claim on artwork made with the font. Trademark registration is a separate matter about the mark itself; for that, ask a trademark professional. ### May I modify the letters for my wordmark? Yes. Converting text to outlines and reshaping it is normal logo practice, and open licenses allow it. Restrictions concern redistributing a modified font file under a reserved name, which a logo does not do. ### Should a logo font also be the website font? It can be, if the family has text weights. Many brands instead use the logo face only for the mark and headings, with a quieter family for paragraphs. ## Related collections - [Geometric sans-serif fonts](https://trendhub.net/fonts/for/geometric-sans-serif-fonts.markdown) - [Wide and extended fonts for headings and logos](https://trendhub.net/fonts/for/wide-and-extended-fonts.markdown) - [Roman capital and inscriptional fonts for titles](https://trendhub.net/fonts/for/roman-capital-fonts.markdown) - [Rounded friendly fonts for social media and apps](https://trendhub.net/fonts/for/rounded-friendly-fonts.markdown) - [Art Deco fonts and 1920s geometric display faces](https://trendhub.net/fonts/for/art-deco-fonts.markdown) - [Thin and hairline fonts for light, airy headings](https://trendhub.net/fonts/for/thin-and-hairline-fonts.markdown) --- Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/for/logo-and-wordmark-fonts (trendhub)