Over 40,000 websites were analyzed to determine the most popular fonts. OpenSans was the most used font, appearing on 13% of sites. Roboto and FontAwesome were also among the top fonts. Over half the sites used one of the top 10 fonts identified, and 64% used one of the top 40 fonts. Free fonts made up the majority at 68.06% while commercial and icon fonts accounted for smaller percentages. OpenSans, Roboto, and FontAwesome were the top three overall fonts, while FontAwesome, Glyphicons, and Icomoon led in the icon font category. Most sites used normal font weights with bold and light variants also being popular.

1. WhatFontIs analysed over 40,000 websites - the most visited websites on the
World Wide Web - and discovered some very interesting facts about the fonts
they use. While OpenSans is the unchallenged king, with over 13% of the sites
choosing it, the most popular webfont out there has strong competitors in
Roboto and FontAwesome.
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51%
Over half (51%)
of the analysed websites
use the same 10 fonts
64%
of all websites analysed
use the same 40 fonts
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WhatFontIs broke down
the fonts into three main
categories: commercial,
free and icon fonts
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We observed the top 5
fonts from each
categories and you can
see in the pie chart how
much their respective
percentages are
42.3percent of all websites
included in the WhatFontIs
study use the same 5 fonts
Free Fonts 68.06%
Commercial Fonts 5.59%
Icon Fonts 26.35%
Top Web Fonts in 2019
Top fonts by category
Topfree,commercial&iconfonts
Top 3 fonts
OpenSans
Roboto
Lato
SourceSansPro
Montserrat
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
13.02
11.67
4.16
2.49
2.08
ProximaNova
HelveticaNeue
SegoeUI
Frutiger
Gibson
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4
1.32
1.18
0.39
0.19
0.17
FontAwesome
Glyphicons
Icomoon
Iconfont
Fontello
0 2 4 6 8 10
10.78
2.63
1.77
0.73
0.47
Top free fonts
Top commercial fonts
Top icon fonts
Web fonts superstars
Normal 56.71%
Bold 15.73%
Light 9.52%
Semi Bold 5.11%
Medium 5.01%
Ultra Bold 2.61%
Extra Light 2.40%
Extra Bold 2.00%
Thin 0.10%
Not standard 0.80%
OpenSans
Roboto
FontAwesome
Top 3 fonts 35.47% Other fonts 64.53%
Top Font Weights
WhatFontIs also analysed the weights used by all the 40,000 websites included
in the study. The results show that the majority of them use the default, normal
weights for each of their fonts, while over 15 percent decided on bold versions.
Just over 10 percent went for light options of webfonts.
Source: www.WhatFontIs.com
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