Trademarking logos created on Canva

Your logo is the face of your business or company. When it comes to designing this important piece of your brand identity, you want to put your best foot forward and create something people will remember.

Registering your logo as a trademark takes this one step further. When you register a trademark, that means you have the exclusive right to use that mark to distinguish your goods and services from other businesses.

If you’d like to create logos on Canva that you can register as a trademark, there are two ways you can go with:

In creating a unique logo in Canva from scratch, you can use simple lines and shapes from our Free library. You can also use all of our fonts.

However, you can’t use stock content (e.g. photos and graphics) as we only give you a non-exclusive license to this. Other Canva users are free to use the same content which means that using stock content for your logos isn’t suitable for use in a trademark. Elements in a logo need to be exclusive to you.

Learn more about Canva’s licenses here in Licensing explained.

You can upload your own logo design to Canva. This might be a logo you designed yourself or one you commissioned a graphic designer to create for you.

After uploading your logo, you can use Canva to create branded collateral for your business, like social media content, business cards, flyers, and so much more.

Canva’s logo templates are customizable and can be used by anyone. This means that your rights to the logo are non-exclusive and you can’t register it as a trademark.

Using a logo template is a great way to create a logo if you’re just starting out and you’re not worried about having exclusive rights.

If you don’t have the time or budget to design a unique logo, it’s a quick and easy way to create basic branding for your products and services.

This isn’t something we offer at the moment. We recommend reaching out to a local graphic designer or artist instead.