RindrawCan you use Procreate commercially? Fonts, brushes and your art
Art you make in Procreate is yours to sell, and so are brushes you make yourself. Procreate's own fonts are open-licensed and fine for commercial work today. The catches are fonts that came from somewhere else, Procreate's example artworks and 3D models, and reselling its default brushes. Old forum answers disagree with each other because the fonts Procreate ships have changed.
For Procreate 5.4. From Procreate's FAQ, Handbook and Community, where these questions have been read over 23,000 times. Checked November 13, 2026. This is a summary of what Procreate publishes, not legal advice.
Your art
Procreate's FAQ answers it directly: any art you make with the tools Procreate comes with, its brushes and color swatches, and the time-lapse videos of it, is your content, to use however you like. You can sell prints, take commissions, put it on clothing and license it. No credit to Procreate is required, though its team says they'd love a mention.
Three things in the app aren't yours to sell, by the same FAQ: Procreate itself and its graphics, the example artworks it includes, and the objects in its downloadable 3D Model pack. You can paint those models and share the results on social media, but not license or sell anything made with them.
Fonts
The Text tool lists three kinds of font, and each has its own answer.
- Procreate's own fonts. Procreate 5.4 ships 26, from Anton, Sora and Space Grotesk to Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and Thai faces. Its Handbook says they're under an open-source licence and may be used for personal and commercial projects.
- The iPad's fonts. Procreate shows every font in iOS, nearly a hundred. Procreate doesn't license these, and its FAQ says it's your responsibility to check whether a suitable licence exists for what you're making.
- Fonts you import. They come with the licence they were sold or shared under. A "free for personal use" font is the most common trap: it stays personal-use when it's inside Procreate.
If you read the forum, you'll find staff saying different things. In 2019, they said the default fonts were fine for commercial work. In 2021 and again in 2024, they said Eina 01, Impact and Jack Armstrong BB were for use in the app or personal work only. Those three were the bundled fonts then. The Handbook's list today doesn't include them, and Procreate's current answer covers the 26 it ships now. Art made years ago in one of those older fonts is the case to check.
Brushes
- Using the default brushes in art you sell: fine. They're among the tools the FAQ means.
- Selling brushes you made: yours to sell. Put your name on them under About this Brush in the Brush Studio, so a copy resold by someone else can be traced to you.
- Reselling Procreate's brushes, or its shape and grain sources, as they are: not allowed. Forum members and moderators say a brush built from a default needs real changes to its settings before it's yours to sell.
- Brushes you bought: the seller's licence decides. Many allow commercial art but not reselling the brushes.
How Rindraw does it
We make Rindraw. What you make in it is yours, commercially or not, and so is everything it comes with to make it:
- Fonts. Rindraw carries 92 font families from Google Fonts, for comic lettering, handwriting, signs and Arabic, Devanagari and Thai. Each is under the SIL Open Font License or the Apache License, and both allow commercial work without credit. The full list and every licence are in Settings › Acknowledgements. Fonts from the iPad or Mac, Apple's fonts to download and fonts you add are listed with them and keep their own licences.
- Brushes. All 304 built-in brushes paint with tips and paper grains we made from noise ourselves, released under CC0: free for any use, no credit. You can download them for Procreate or Photoshop too. Use the built-in brushes in any art you sell. Brushes you make are yours to share or sell too; the built-in brushes themselves, as they come, are part of the app and aren't for resale.
- 3D lighting. The lighting environments for painting 3D models are made from Poly Haven's CC0 photographs.
Rindraw ships no example artworks or 3D models with strings attached. The Terms say the same.
Questions
Can I sell art I made in Procreate?
Yes. Procreate's FAQ says any art you make with the brushes and color swatches it comes with, time-lapse videos included, is yours to use however you like, commercially too. What you can't sell is Procreate itself, its graphics, its example artworks or the objects in its 3D Model pack.
Can I use Procreate's fonts commercially?
Procreate's own 26 fonts, yes: its Handbook lists them, from Anton to Pridi, under an open-source licence for personal and commercial projects. Older forum answers saying otherwise were about fonts it used to ship (Eina 01, Impact, Jack Armstrong BB). The iOS fonts and fonts you import have licences of their own, which Procreate leaves to you to check.
Can I sell brushes I made in Procreate?
Brushes you made are yours to sell. Procreate's default brushes, and its sources for shapes and grains, are its own: forum moderators and members say don't resell them as they are, and change a brush substantially before selling it.
Can I sell art painted on Procreate's 3D models?
Not on the 3D Model pack's objects. Procreate's FAQ says you may paint them and share the results on social media, but not license or sell anything using them, privately or commercially.
Sources
- Procreate FAQ: “Can I use the art and videos I make in Procreate commercially?”, the bundled fonts under the SIL Open Font License, other fonts the artist's responsibility; the 3D Model pack not for commercial use.
- Procreate Handbook (5.4), Fonts: 26 default fonts, open-source licensed, for personal and commercial projects; every iOS font available.
- Procreate Community, Default fonts licenses on commercial use: about 12,000 views; staff said yes in 2019, then in 2021 that Eina 01, Impact and Jack Armstrong BB and the iOS fonts were for use within the app only.
- Procreate Community, Licence of fonts in Procreate: about 5,800 views; staff's 2024 update: those three fonts personal use only, Smiley Sans open-licensed.
- Procreate Community, Can Procreate use for commercial?: about 3,400 views; art printed on clothing and sold, pointed to the FAQ.
- Procreate Community, Brush License: about 1,600 views; brushes you made can be sold, default brushes and sources not resold as they are.
- Procreate Community, Default brushes for commercial use: art made with them can be sold, the brushes themselves can't.
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