Fontreach millions of web site font usage

Want to know what fonts Facebook, Twitter, and Google are using? Want to know the most popular font of the Web page? A cool station to get it straight! Today's Fontreach not only allows you to quickly query the fonts used for a Web site, but also lists the most popular page font charts ( Guess which is the world's first, to help you grasp the font trend!

Web page font (Web fonts) history can be traced back to the CSS2 specification's @font-face attribute, a technique that allows more changes to the font of the Web page, even if the computer does not have the corresponding font file installed, allowing the system to support more display characters through a browser load. Web fonts have been used heavily in today's web applications, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other websites that you normally visit.

Whether you're a web designer, or you'd like to spend your time researching a site-related technology, you should also know how to load page fonts in a Web page (such as using Google Fonts), but you might want to know what web fonts the world's websites choose to use.

This article to introduce the Fontreach Web site has helped you to organize these data, so that users can quickly query a font used for those we are familiar with the site, as long as open the page, enter the name of the font to query, Fontreach will be all the data bar listed.

In addition, it can also show the hottest page font rankings, so that you know the most popular page font selection!

Fontreach

The data provided by the website are mainly in English fonts. If you want to use Chinese fonts in Chinese websites, try Justfont or Ifontcloud cloud font services.

Step 1

After opening the Fontreach website, enter the name of the font you want to query in the search box on the first page, for example, Helvetica, and then display the possible font names below, as well as how many Web sites it is currently using.

Step 2

Search Helvetica neue This very well-known Web page font, sure there are more than 200,000 sites used, in the list is the third place, which will be listed according to the site rankings, including Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and EBay and other sites are used Helvetica.

If you want to get a better idea of all the fonts that a Web site uses, click on the URL and immediately show the results, and you can see the fonts used by Twitter include: Arial, Helvetica neue, Sans-serif, monospace, Georgia, Tahoma and Courier New, very interesting.

Step 3

In my experience, a good Web page font must have several elements, including: The file can not be too large, good reading and can be applied in the title or the specific style. How do you find the most appropriate font? Perhaps you can use the list of fonts to find out.

Turn on the http://www.fontreach.com/#top to see the Fontreach collation of the font ranking.

Fontreach is indeed a valuable reference tool for developers, allowing us to have a more objective basis for selecting Web pages. If you want to know the font used by a website but not listed in Fontreach, you can use other similar query tools:

Fontface Ninja a key to view the font name, size, and row height used by the Web page

Type Sample easy to query, identify the font name and size used in the Web page

Stylify Me quick to get web site color, font and other style information

Three reasons to be worth a try:

Quick query font is used by many websites

Find a list of fonts used by a Web site

Page Font Usage charts