font inspectorWhat font does PayPal use?
PayPal’s current brand leans on one bold idea: enormous black headlines. The home page headline measured about 121px at weight 900, while body copy stays calm at regular weight.
Short answer: PayPal uses its own typeface, PayPal Pro: a heavy display cut for its giant headlines and a variable text cut, PayPal Pro Text VF, for everything else.
PayPal Pro Text
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PayPal Pro Text VF- Weights
- 400, 700
- Sizes
- 37.8px · 25.9px · 21.5px · 16px · 14px · 12px
- Served from
- www.paypalobjects.com
PayPal Pro
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PayPal Pro- Weights
- 900
- Sizes
- 180.9px · 121.1px · 99.4px · 67.1px · 55.3px · 45.5px
- Served from
- www.paypalobjects.com
Sizes, weights and spacing by role
These are computed values from the live page, which is what the Font Inspector panel shows when you click each element.
| Role | Font | Size | Weight | Line height | Letter spacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headline | PayPal Pro | 121.1px | 900 | 1 | -0.03em |
| Body text | PayPal Pro Text | 21.5px | 400 | 1.5 | -0.015em |
| Navigation | PayPal Pro Text | 16px | 400 | 1.4 | normal |
The main font stack in the CSS:
font-family: "PayPal Pro Text VF", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;- The headline stack falls back to Century Gothic, a geometric font found on many Windows machines, before Helvetica and Arial.
- Every large size is fractional, which shows the type scales fluidly with the window.
- The contrast in weight is extreme: 900 for headlines, 400 for nearly everything else.
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About the fonts, and whether you can use them
PayPal Pro Text
The text cut of PayPal’s custom sans serif, loaded as one variable font file covering weights 400 to 900.
Can you use it? PayPal Pro is proprietary. Inter and Hanken Grotesk are free alternatives for the text, and Outfit works for heavy geometric headlines.
On Google Fonts: Inter, Hanken Grotesk.
PayPal Pro
The display cut, used only in its heaviest weight for headlines that run up to about 180px.
Can you use it? Also proprietary. Outfit and Jost in their black weights give a comparable geometric punch.
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Get a similar look with a free font
This starter uses Inter, which is open source, with the sizes and spacing measured above. It is an approximation, not a copy of PayPal’s brand typeface.
/* Approximates the PayPal look with a free font */
body {
font-family: "Inter", system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;
}
h1 {
font-size: 7.56875rem; /* 121.1px */
font-weight: 900;
line-height: 1;
letter-spacing: -0.03em;
}
p {
font-size: 1.34375rem; /* 21.5px */
font-weight: 400;
line-height: 1.5;
letter-spacing: -0.015em;
}How we checked
We opened paypal.com in Chrome on September 21, 2026 and read the computed styles of its visible text: the declared font stack, the font actually rendered, and how much of the page’s text each family sets. That is the same data the Font Inspector extension shows under Fonts on this page. We re-check these pages periodically, and the date above shows the last inspection.
PayPal and its typefaces are trademarks of their respective owners. Font Inspector is not affiliated with PayPal.
Questions & answers
What font does PayPal use on its website?
PayPal uses its own typeface, PayPal Pro: a heavy display cut for its giant headlines and a variable text cut, PayPal Pro Text VF, for everything else.
Can I use the PayPal font?
PayPal Pro is proprietary. Inter and Hanken Grotesk are free alternatives for the text, and Outfit works for heavy geometric headlines.
What is a free font similar to PayPal Pro Text?
Inter and Hanken Grotesk are free on Google Fonts and give a similar feel. No free font is an exact match, so compare it with your own text first.
How can I check what font PayPal uses myself?
Open paypal.com, then click any text with the Font Inspector extension, or right-click, choose Inspect and look at Rendered Fonts in the Computed tab. Sites change their typography, so checking the live page is the only way to be sure.