23 comments

  • Jesse ChaseJesse Chase, 8 years ago

    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.

    4 points
  • Chris Balin, 8 years ago

    Nicely done. The UI for this is very slick.

    3 points
  • Nicholas HendrickxNicholas Hendrickx, 8 years ago (edited 8 years ago )

    I should give this Arial a try for a next project.

    2 points
  • Kyo NagashimaKyo Nagashima, 8 years ago

    I’m very impressive Noto Sans Japanese used by 111 sites.

    2 points
  • Richard GongRichard Gong, 8 years ago

    Hilariously useful, well designed, and well executed. We cycle through lots of fonts for our projects at baylaunch.com

    1 point
  • Colm TuiteColm Tuite, 8 years ago

    The letter spacing hover effect is pretty cool, haven't seen that one used before.

    1 point
  • Nick MorrisonNick Morrison, 8 years ago

    Crazy to see Font-Awesome break the top 10. Unbelievable how widely used that is.

    1 point
  • Hayden MillsHayden Mills, 8 years ago

    Super interesting information! Thanks for taking the time to create this tool.

    1 point
  • louie solomonlouie solomon, 8 years ago (edited 8 years ago )

    This is really nice. Would be nice to have a link to the sites listed.

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    • Jesse ChaseJesse Chase, 8 years ago

      its JSON, but this is the entire list: http://api.fontreach.com/fonts

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      • louie solomonlouie solomon, 8 years ago

        Sorry, my comment wasn't very clear. I meant it would be nice if there was an external link to the website once I land on it's page. For example, I search "Brandon Grotesque", then click on "People.com". From here, I think it would be nice to have a link to People.com open in a new tab.

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        • Jesse ChaseJesse Chase, 8 years ago

          Yeah, I agree. Because it's not optimized for domain browsing (rather font browsing), I did not add URL support. Perhaps in a later iteration :)

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  • Adnan Lahrech, 8 years ago

    Very amazing website, but I really wished that it gives a review of the font to see how it does look like when I use it.

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  • Antoine Rousseau, 8 years ago

    Hi, this website is similar and allow you to view all fonts used by a website.

    http://website-font-analyzer.com/

    Top of 100 fonts most used, List of all fonts with all websites used for each font.

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  • Oliver PattisonOliver Pattison, 8 years ago (edited 8 years ago )

    Interestingly the resource counts incorrectly specified fallbacks:

    These are more popular than wonderful typefaces like National, Neutral, Ratio or Seravek which don’t place well (or at all). This seems like a great resource for checking whether a typeface you’re considering is a rarer or atypical choice.

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  • Tom WoodTom Wood, 8 years ago

    Amazing. This is oddly fun.

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