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 @tylerlastovich
About Font Shaming on Product Hunt
“Which fonts do top 737 ProductHunt startups use?”
Font Shaming launched on Product Hunt on August 15th, 2018 and earned 298 upvotes and 31 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. 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 @tylerlastovich
On the analytics side, Font Shaming competes within Web App, Design Tools, Typography and Tech — topics that collectively have 1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Font Shaming performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Font Shaming?
Font Shaming was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Chris Messina