What are the most-viewed fonts in the world?

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  • Stephen Coles
    Stephen Coles Posts: 1,008
    edited November 15
    If you agree that webfonts are the most viewed fonts, the best measure was just released: HTTP Archive’s 2024 Web Almanac.
    Family desktop mobile
    Roboto 15.2% 2.7%
    Font Awesome 10.4% 12.4%
    Noto Sans JP 6.1% 5.7%
    Open Sans 5.6% 6.8%
    Poppins 4.7% 5.8%
    Montserrat 3.3% 3.9%
    Lato 3.2% 3.8%
    Noto Sans KR 1.6% 0.8%
    Source Sans Pro 1.4% 1.7%
    Noto Serif JP 1.2% 1.4%
    Proxima Nova 1.2% 1.2%
    Raleway 1.2% 1.4%
    Inter 1.0% 1.1%
    icomoon 0.9% 1.1%
    Oswald 0.7% 0.8%
    Ubuntu 0.6% 0.8%
    eicons 0.6% 0.8%
    Barlow 0.6% 0.7%
    Rubik 0.6% 0.6%
    NanumGothic 0.6% 0.3%
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,739
    edited November 15
    The fonts in this list are fonts served as webfont resources. Fonts like Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Georgia, etc.—in other words, web-safe fonts, the fonts that are commonly included on computers and therefore don’t need to be served—are left out by definition. I would guess that web-safe fonts are viewed much more than any of the fonts in this list. Unless you assume they are not used much anymore because most sites have switched to using webfonts.
  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 2,899
    edited November 15
    Most websites have indeed switched to webfonts. According to the same above-mentioned Web Almanac (https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/fonts), 87% of websites served to desktops use hosted webfonts (85% for mobile).

    UPDATE: that includes self-hosted webfonts
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,739
    I guess I missed that part. :smile: 
  • jeremy tribby
    jeremy tribby Posts: 251
    interesting methodology, it resulted in a list that is a little different than the GF analytics page. "most viewed" is tricky as a metric, as it doesn't weigh in on the humanity of these viewers; more and more bots these days scrape content using residential IP addresses and normal-looking user agents, it's tough to know sometimes
    well, in any case, note to self: merge that bug-fix branch of barlow

  • jeremy tribby
    jeremy tribby Posts: 251
    ahh yeah that sounds hard to normalize the names. there are also forks of projects that have been renamed intentionally but without other modification, sometimes you'll see open source fonts that end up with names like CompanyName Sans, CompanyName Serif, etc

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