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Enter a name and watch it appear in heavy black brush capitals on a white background, matching the Friends logo. Save the picture, or download the free Friends font.
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A PNG for a story, a pin or a poster. Clear has no background.
The font file is just belowThe original
by Gabriel Weiss
Gabriel Weiss’ Friends Font is a hand-drawn recreation of the show’s lettering, free on dafont for personal use only. Its licence does not let it be passed on, so it is not given here: get it from its author. Free for posters, invites and your edits; to sell what you make with it, buy its author’s licence.
Free to download
by Font Diner
Permanent Marker has the same thick, uneven strokes and forward lean as the Friends lettering, with its own letters, numbers and accents. Use it for anything, even things you sell.
TTF in a ZIP, with its licence · 38 KB
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What the font has, before you download it.
Open the file in a font app from the App Store and install it. Then pick it in Pages, Keynote or Procreate.
Unzip the file, right-click the .ttf and choose Install. It shows up in Word, Photoshop and Cricut Design Space.
Unzip the file, double-click the .ttf and press Install.
In Brand Kit, choose Upload a font and pick the .ttf. Uploading fonts needs Canva Pro.
Install the font on your computer first, then restart Design Space: it is under System fonts.
They take no fonts. Save your words as a picture at the top of this page and add it as a sticker.
According to Google’s AI answer, the Friends logo is drawn by hand rather than set in a font you can install. The recreation people are sent to is Gabriel Weiss’ Friends Font on dafont, and the same answer names Minus Cre, by Fred Cre, as another. A sold family called Friends from W Type Foundry also turns up in the results, but it describes itself as a system for postmodern graphics, not the show’s lettering.
Gabriel Weiss’ Friends typeface may be used at no cost for personal projects, but its creator wants a message before any business use, which is why we don’t offer it here. The typeface used on this page is Permanent Marker, created by Font Diner: heavy, irregular marker-style capitals slanting like the logo’s, at no charge for any project under the Apache License 2.0.
FRIENDS is drawn in thick black brush strokes on white: capitals leaning forward, the first F a little larger and looser than the rest. Red, blue and yellow dots sit between the letters, and they are separate artwork, not part of any font.
Choosing Solid with the Logo backdrop renders your text in that black-on-white capital style, mirroring how the logo appears in print. Clear retains just the black lettering, so you can place it over a photograph or a tinted background.
The Friends lettering is hand-drawn, so there are no Unicode letters in that look to copy and paste into a bio; for letters you can paste, see copy and paste fonts.
The logo is hand lettering with no font name. The closest free recreation is Gabriel Weiss’ Friends Font on dafont, and Permanent Marker is the free lookalike given on this page.
Gabriel Weiss’ Friends Font costs nothing for private use, yet its creator requests contact ahead of any commercial work. Permanent Marker, offered on this page, carries no charge for any undertaking under the Apache License 2.0, whereas the Friends logo is not a downloadable typeface.
The dots are not letters in any font: in the logo they are separate red, blue and yellow artwork between the letters. Save your words here, then draw three small circles in those colors in Canva or CapCut and place them in the gaps.
The search results show none built in; one Facebook post says its writer bought a font file on Etsy and uploaded it. Canva Pro’s Brand Kit accepts custom typefaces, so Permanent Marker, which costs nothing, can be added there, or you can drop in the image saved from this page.
With Permanent Marker, yes: its Apache License 2.0 lets you sell what you make with it. Friends and its logo belong to Warner Bros., so do not sell anything that copies the logo or uses the name, and Gabriel Weiss’ font needs its author’s permission for commercial use.
Not affiliated with Warner Bros. Entertainment. Names and logos belong to their owners.
