Font Shaming
Which fonts do top 737 ProductHunt startups use?
Font Shaming launched on August 15, 2018 with 320 votes, #36 of 2,619 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Font Shaming is a web tool that analyzes the typefaces used by top-performing Product Hunt startups. It reveals which fonts and font combinations are most popular among successful launches, identifying trends like heavy reliance on system fonts and Google Fonts, along with a long tail of misspelled entries. The analysis also highlights unusual practices such as websites using both Helvetica and Arial simultaneously, introducing the concept of "font shaming" to describe questionable typographic choices.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
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
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