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FontReach – Surface font usage data on the web(fontreach.com)
almost 8 years ago from Jesse Chase, Designer@Airbnb, Previously CD@DigitalOcean
Juan Sarmiento, almost 8 years ago Amazing work Jesse, I would love to feature it in a couple of design resources series I write for a couple of well-known design blogs, if you don't mind!
Jesse Chase, almost 8 years ago
By all means, Juan! Let me know if you would like to chat about it.
Juan Sarmiento, almost 8 years ago (edited almost 8 years ago ) sure, my gtalk: jp.iconshock at gmail
Surjith S M, almost 8 years ago
Last week, I searched for this, and you made it now. Awesome :)
Anselm Urban, almost 8 years ago
Great work! But I wonder how the data is collected... my sites aren´t listed ;)
You can read a bit more about it here: https://medium.com/inside-digitalocean/fontreach-font-usage-visualized-b6c5b6294787
Data is collecting by scanning the top million websites based on Alexa ranking. If a font is used on the site (based on first position in font-family), it is recorded.
Creator here - I wanted to explain a bit more about FontReach. FR crawls the top million websites, and surfaces data about font usage across the web. It allows us to answer questions like, 'How many sites use Proxima Nova?' or 'What are the most used fonts on the internet?". We now have data around the fairly uncharted world of web fonts.