Indie blogs
Personal sites and one-person publications, ranked by how often they reach the Hacker News front page.
958 sites. 2.7% blocked our crawler this week and aren’t counted.
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- 16%154 sites
- 5.6%54 sites
- 3.9%37 sites
- 32 sites
- 30 sites
- 29 sites
- Roboto2.8%
- Helvetica Neue2.7%
- Verdana2.7%
- Arial2.4%
- Merriweather1.8%
- Helvetica1.7%
- IBM Plex Sans1.6%
- Lato1.6%
- Source Sans1.5%
- Lora1.3%
Trend lines need at least two data points. Our weekly crawl started recently, so this fills in over the next few weeks.
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| Period | Source | Inter | Open Sans | Georgia | Times New Roman | Roboto | Helvetica Neue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Q1 | Web archive estimate, 143 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2021 Q2 | Web archive estimate, 142 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2021 Q3 | Web archive estimate, 145 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2021 Q4 | Web archive estimate, 147 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2022 Q1 | Web archive estimate, 148 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2022 Q2 | Web archive estimate, 147 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2022 Q3 | Web archive estimate, 149 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2022 Q4 | Web archive estimate, 151 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2023 Q1 | Web archive estimate, 152 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2023 Q2 | Web archive estimate, 155 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2023 Q3 | Web archive estimate, 154 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2023 Q4 | Web archive estimate, 153 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2024 Q1 | Web archive estimate, 155 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2024 Q2 | Web archive estimate, 153 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2024 Q3 | Web archive estimate, 154 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2024 Q4 | Web archive estimate, 152 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2025 Q1 | Web archive estimate, 148 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2025 Q2 | Web archive estimate, 150 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2025 Q3 | Web archive estimate, 154 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2025 Q4 | Web archive estimate, 149 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2026 Q1 | Web archive estimate, 142 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2026 Q2 | Web archive estimate, 150 sites | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Our crawl, 167 sites | 5.6% | 3.9% | 3.3% | 3.1% | 2.8% | 2.7% |
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Pairings
- SF Prosystem-uiabortretry.fail, awesomekling.substack.com
- LatoSource Sansbatsov.com, blog.0x7d0.dev
- Lorasystem-uibessstillman.substack.com, davidoks.blog
- system-uiGeorgia00f.net, blog.brixit.nl
- PT SansPT Serifautodidacts.io, b-list.org
- Trebuchet MSLucida Grandebunniestudios.com, filfre.net
- HelveticaGeorgiaanderegg.ca, benkuhn.net
- Roboto SlabRobotoawealthofcommonsense.com, dfarq.homeip.net
- System fonts42%
- Self-hosted35%
- Google Fonts20%
- Adobe Fonts1.8%
- Other font CDNs0.7%
Platform
Switches
No confirmed switches yet. A switch counts once a site shows the new font in two crawls in a row.
Every site
No sites match that filter.