Top Web Fonts in 2019

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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Top fonts by category

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Icon Fonts 26.35%
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
Free Fonts 68.06% categories and you can
see in the pie chart how
Commercial Fonts 5.59% much their respective
percentages are

Top free, commercial & icon fonts

Top free fonts Top icon fonts
OpenSans 13.02 FontAwesome 10.78

Roboto 11.67 Glyphicons 2.63

Lato 4.16 Icomoon 1.77

SourceSansPro 2.49 Iconfont 0.73

Montserrat 2.08 Fontello 0.47

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Top commercial fonts

ProximaNova 1.32

HelveticaNeue 1.18

SegoeUI 0.39

Frutiger 0.19

Gibson 0.17

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Web fonts superstars

42.3
percent of all websites
included in the WhatFontIs
study use the same 5 fonts

Top 3 fonts
Top 3 fonts 35.47% Other fonts 64.53%
OpenSans

Roboto

FontAwesome

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.

Not standard 0.80%

Thin 0.10%
Extra Bold 2.00%
Extra Light 2.40%
Ultra Bold 2.61%
Medium 5.01%
Semi Bold 5.11%

Light 9.52%

Normal 56.71%

Bold 15.73%

Source: www.WhatFontIs.com

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