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Font Shaming - Which fonts do top 737 ProductHunt startups use?

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We scraped the top hunts. Which fonts and font combinations do they use?

Conclusions:

* Lots of system fonts

* Lots of Google Fonts

* A long tail of the misspelled fonts

* Shockingly, no Comic Sans!

Finally, some websites use Helvetica and Arial on the same page which raises the question of *font shaming*, a term coined by

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I love this concept! Unfortunately, this data is simply wrong. I was surprised to see the obscure and monospace typeface "Menlo" in the #2 spot, and the not available to license typeface "Segoe UI" in the #5 spot. So I checked myself: Menlo: 11 of the 12 websites cited do not use it on their homepage. On the one homepage where it's used, it only has the niche application of representing sample code. I don't have time to check every page, but very likely it's only used for that purpose. Segoe UI: Not visible anywhere on any of the websites cited, unless the visitor happens to be using Windows Vista OS (0.4%). I could only find it in the CSS of the homepage of 2 of the 12 websites. In those 2 cases, it's used as a backup font to the "System UI" font. This means means that it will only be visible where it is the System UI font, i.e. Windows Vista OS. This is a great idea, and I would love to see it take into account the actual visibility of the font, e.g. weighting character count, font-size, and use on homepages vs deeper pages.
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Matthew, accepted. We checked it internally, and found out it's much less precise than we thought. The reason is we scan the CSS and not HTML. Therefore, we count the CSS properties that are not used or redefined, thus users don't see them. Will rework it and let you know here. Thank you for your investigation. You're our whistleblower and, in short, our hero.
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Hi Matthew, as promised, we've reworked the fonts page . We have manually checked all those websites with Font Ninja extension, collected new data, and pushed changes this week. There is still a small problem though. Because in some cases Font Ninja shows fonts that are not used, for example, we noticed this issue with Arial. At the moment the data is more close to the real picture, but there can be inaccuracies.
super cool!
Awesome work Icons8 Team. This is super cool!
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thank you, Eric!
Cool idea!
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thank you :) We almost cancelled the project after we saw no cool, inspirational font pairings; then we had to pivot it.
I find this amazing!
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oh boy, you know how to motivate.
Again great work Icons8 teams! ps I've receive an error modal when I was clicking on the fonts
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can't reproduce :( we've restarted the services though recently, our bad
It does not seem to be working today.
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raises a question of *font shaming*. There are the respectable websites that use Arial and Helvetica on the same page. Should we judge them? You encourage you to analyze the scraped data on your own. Here it is:
can not open the page.... probably to many visits. Curious
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confirmed, looking into...
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Great idea!
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oh thank you! It used to be a test task for our new team member btw
Great work everyone! This is dope.
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oh thanks. It's great to hear from someone like you. Love Fontpair!
Great stuff guys!
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thank you, buddy!
Really nice! How to add our site?
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you're supposed to be in top 1000 websites here at ProductHunt (and don't link directly to the app store or something like that — we excluded the websites like this)
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