Google font stats Hosting Local Fonts vs 3rd Partyīefore we dive into the tutorial it is important to understand a few of the advantages and disadvantages between hosting local fonts and simply using a 3rd party service. We have a post about the best Google fonts, make sure you take a look: 15 Best Google Fonts by the Numbers. That is a lot! Open Sans and Roboto are their two most widely used font families, with Roboto seeing a whopping 77% growth in the past year. And if we look at the Google Fonts analytics, we can see that they have had over 17 quadrillion views. According to BuiltWith, over 45% of the top 10,000 websites are utilizing Google Fonts on their websites. Google Fonts is an open source font directory which has become widely used over the past couple years. Some examples of web fonts include Google’s Open Sans and Roboto font, as well as the popular Proxima Nova font from Adobe Fonts. Web fonts are fonts that are not pre-installed on a device and must be downloaded by the user’s browser before being displayed.
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These are fonts you have seen for many years. Some examples of web safe fonts include Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New as well as generic font families like serif, sans-serif (see modern fonts), and monospace.
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Suggested reading: How to Change Font in WordPress.
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Or they could also be using a mixture of both.
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When you browse to someone’s WordPress site you see two types of basic fonts, web safe fonts or web fonts.