Fonts Over Time
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Fonts Over Time crawls roughly 10,000 homepages every week in a real browser to record which typefaces they use, then tracks how font choices shift by category and by site over time. It backfills historical trends using web archive snapshots, letting users compare specific fonts, view common pairings, and see a feed of sites that recently switched typefaces.
At a glance
Fonts Over Time tracks the typefaces that sampled homepages use for body text and headings. It is worth browsing for design research when you want to see which sites use a font or when a site switched.
Good fit
Designers looking for real-world heading and body pairings or tracking a typeface across a set of sites.
Consider something else when
Use a different dataset if you need representative statistics for the whole web or typography across internal pages.
Start here
Find a typeface you are considering, inspect its site examples and check a pairing in context. On the trend chart, separate recent measurements from the dashed historical estimates.
Cost and requirements
The public site offers comparison charts and free data exports. A browser is enough to inspect site histories and pairings.
Limits to know
Recent measurements come from rendered homepages. Older points come from archived pages, where missing font files can make the estimate reflect the requested family rather than the one actually rendered.
Sources checked 2026-11-05. Source-based assessment.
Why it made the leaderboard
It replaces anecdote with a live, historical dataset of what fonts the web actually uses, useful when making typography decisions for a new product.
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