Poppins Font: the ZIP below holds all 18 font files with 9 static weights and 1,060 glyphs, plus the OFL licence.
Yes — Poppins is free for commercial use, including in apps and client websites you ship
Poppins is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL). You can use it in client work, logos, products you sell, apps and print, without paying and without asking permission.
Poppins comes from the Indian Type Foundry, and it was built as a two-script family from the start: Latin and Devanagari, drawn on the same geometric logic. The Devanagari side was genuinely new when it shipped in 2015 — the first Devanagari face in this genre to arrive with a full weight range. That origin shows in the Latin. Several letters, the ampersand most obviously, are drawn more constructed and rationalist than a typical geometric sans, because they were reasoned out from circles and straight lines rather than inherited from a handwriting model.
We read the license state from the font file itself rather than from a listing. The embedding permission flag (fsType) is 0 — Installable, the least restrictive value in the OpenType specification.
Quick facts
| Designer | Indian Type Foundry, Jonny Pinhorn, Ninad Kale |
| Added to Google Fonts | June 2015 |
| Version | 4.004 |
| License | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Commercial use | Yes, no attribution required |
Embedding (fsType) | 0 — Installable, unrestricted |
| Variable font | No — single static weight |
| Glyphs | 1,060 |
| Characters covered | 471 |
| OpenType features | 18 |
| Vietnamese support | Not full |
| Download size | 1.3 MB — 18 font files + OFL.txt |
Download Poppins
What’s in the download
The download is a single ZIP containing all 18 static font files for Poppins, plus the licence:
| Weight | Upright | Italic |
|---|---|---|
| Thin | Poppins-Thin.ttf | Poppins-ThinItalic.ttf |
| Extra Light | Poppins-ExtraLight.ttf | Poppins-ExtraLightItalic.ttf |
| Light | Poppins-Light.ttf | Poppins-LightItalic.ttf |
| Regular | Poppins-Regular.ttf | Poppins-Italic.ttf |
| Medium | Poppins-Medium.ttf | Poppins-MediumItalic.ttf |
| Semi Bold | Poppins-SemiBold.ttf | Poppins-SemiBoldItalic.ttf |
| Bold | Poppins-Bold.ttf | Poppins-BoldItalic.ttf |
| Extra Bold | Poppins-ExtraBold.ttf | Poppins-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf |
| Black | Poppins-Black.ttf | Poppins-BlackItalic.ttf |
OFL.txt travels with the files — keep it in the folder if you pass the font on to anyone else. Total download 1.3 MB.
The download includes the OFL license file. Keep it in the package if you redistribute the font.
Pairing suggestion. Schibsted Grotesk on The Asset Crate — another free UI sans, but variable and with a wider weight range.
See it in real layouts: 6 fonts that pair with Poppins in Canva, including why Montserrat is a poor match.
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What the OFL license actually lets you do
You can:
- Use Poppins in commercial projects, including client work you bill for
- Use Poppins in a logo or brand identity, and trademark that logo
- Sell products that use Poppins — merchandise, packaging, book covers
- Embed Poppins in websites, apps, games, PDFs and ebooks
- Modify Poppins and redistribute your modified version
You cannot:
- Sell the font file on its own, outside a larger bundled product
- Distribute it without the OFL license file
- Release a modified version under a Reserved Font Name
No attribution is required in your design. The OFL only asks that the license file travels with the font files.
Inside the file: 1,060 glyphs and 471 characters
Poppins ships 1,060 glyphs covering 471 Unicode codepoints.
12 languages in full — Vietnamese not among them
Tested against the full alphabets of a reference set of languages, Poppins fully covers 12:
Spanish · French · German · Portuguese · Italian · Polish · Czech · Turkish · Romanian · Hungarian · Dutch · Nordic (da/no/sv)
Vietnamese is not fully covered in this file. If you need stacked diacritics such as ế, ộ, ữ and ỹ, test before committing.
Which Unicode blocks those 471 characters cover
| Block | Covered |
|---|---|
| Basic Latin | 95 / 96 |
| Latin-1 Supplement | 96 / 96 |
| Latin Extended-A | 107 / 128 |
| Latin Extended-B | 8 / 208 |
| IPA Extensions | 1 / 96 |
| Greek | 1 / 144 |
| Latin Extended Additional | 12 / 256 |
OpenType features: 18 in the file
| Feature | What it does |
|---|
Plus 18 further feature tags in the file, mostly stylistic-set and script-specific tables.
One static weight, by design
Poppins ships as a single static weight with no variable axes. That is a design decision rather than a gap — it means you cannot build a weight hierarchy from this family alone, and will need a second face for anything requiring contrast between levels.
A tall x-height (0.548) — drawn to hold at small sizes
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Units per em | 1,000 |
| Ascender | 1,050 |
| Descender | -350 |
| Cap height ratio | 0.698 |
| x-height ratio | 0.548 |
An x-height ratio of 0.548 is high. Large lowercase letters make text look bigger at the same point size and hold up well at small sizes and on low-resolution screens — the trade is that long passages can feel dense.
Right for interfaces, wrong for long reading
Good fit: Interface work, app UI, and branding that needs a clean geometric voice; anything that may later need Devanagari from the same family.
Poor fit: Long-form body text. Geometric sans faces with near-circular bowls tire the eye over paragraphs — use a text-first face for that.
Need something a free family cannot give you? Licensed families usually ship more weights, more alternates and a matched companion face:
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More free sans serif coverage
- Schibsted Grotesk — another free UI sans, but variable and with a wider weight range
The license state and every technical figure on this page were read directly from the Poppins font binary — fsType embedding bits, glyph counts, character coverage, OpenType feature tables, variable-axis ranges and vertical metrics — not copied from a third-party listing. Last verified 23 August 2026 against version 4.004.
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