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Have you ever asked yourself what fonts are using the best 20 websites in the world? I asked myself this question in the shower and immediately decide to write an article on this topic. It is mega interesting and I hope that you are eager to find out.
The top 20 websites in the world is made by SimilarWeb, a platform that I personally use very often, maybe daily, to find out how blogs are doing in terms of traffic and other metrics.
The top websites rank by SimilarWeb is based on the most visited websites in the world, and their engagement metrics. The rank date is 1st April 2020 and it is not a joke.
The tool used to find out the fonts used in the best 20 websites in the world
There is an efficient, simple, and free solution to find out what font is any website using. This is extremely cool, whenever we see a font that we like and we want to use it on our website, or maybe we are just curious, we can use it.
The name of this excellent tool is WhatFontIs. You can use it in 2 ways:
For identifying fonts from websites
It comes as a Google Chrome Extension and it is free to use. Get WhatFontIs Chrome Extension and start finding out what fonts are different websites using.
You will have a fast and intuitive interface that looks like this.
Hover your mouse cursor over text and in the right, you will find out on the spot the name of the font. If 1 click, you will get over 60 free and paid font alternatives.
Simple to use and free.
To find the font used in any picture
There are times when we want to identify the font used in a picture.
This is possible, it is even a simple task that you can do for free. Again WhatFontIs will help you.
You upload the picture on the homepage of www.whatfontis.com, you crop the picture if needed, you write down the letters identified by the powerful AI, and right away the software will quickly identify the font for you. You will also get 60 free and paid font alternatives.
For each identified font, you will get important info:
- The name of the font.
- Its price.
- You will find out where to get it from.
WhatFontIs is the best font identifier, being loaded with awesome features, one being unique in the market
- It is the only system that identifies both free and paid font.
- The database has over 600k indexed fonts.
- WhatFontIs works with all font foundries, including Google Fonts.
Save the tool and use it to identify fonts, to create your own collection of fonts, or whenever a customer of yours tells you that he likes a certain font, giving you a picture of it.
What fonts are using the best 20 websites in the world
Now that you know what tool we will use, let’s see what fonts are each website is using from this ranking.
You will be surprised, as I was, to find out what fonts are these powerful websites using. I thought they use different fonts, at least some of them.
Let’s start the font identification with the most visited website in the world, you guess it, yes, it is the famous Google.
Font used: Arial
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YouTube
Font used: Roboto
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Font used: SFNS
Download link not available
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Font used: Segoe UI
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Baidu
Font used: PingFang
Download link not available
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Font used: Segoe UI
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Wikipedia
Font used: Sans Serif
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Adult website
Font used: Arial
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Yahoo
Font used: Helvetica Neue
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Adult website
Font used: Arial
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Adult website
Font used: Helvetica Neue
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Amazon
Font used: Amazon Ember
Download link not available
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Yandex.ru
Font used: Helvetica Neue
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Vk.com
Font used: Roboto
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Live.com
Font used: Segoe UI
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UCNews.in
Font used: Helvetica Condensed
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Yahoo Japan
Font used: Hiragino Sans (Kaku Gothic)
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Netflix
Font used: Netflix Sans
Download link not available
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Naver.com
Font used: Malgun Gothic
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Google.com.br
Font used: Arial
Conclusion
You just saw what fonts are using the best 20 websites in the world. Do you have questions? I have some.
Most of these websites are using simple fonts. Each website is having billions of unique visitors each month and they spend $0 for their fonts, at least some of them.
The best 20 websites in the world are using simple and free fonts, why our brains always search for complicated, expensive and sometimes not easy to read fonts? It seems that we tend to complicate everything in our lives, including our websites, our landing pages, our logo, and everything else. We have to stop, all of us, right now.
We should all learn something from this exercise:
- Simple and free fonts do an excellent job.
- It is simple and free to identify fonts from websites and pictures. Using WhatFontIs, both tasks can be made in less than 60 seconds.
If you saw a font that you love on any of these websites, try it on your website and see how it works.
