Fonts

sans-serif

A generic family. The site asked for the visitor’s default font.

Body text on
84 sites
Headings on
78 sites
Share of all homepages
1.0%
Top Hacker News articles
1.6% this week
In our crawl since
Sep 23, 2026
Earliest archive record
Feb 15, 2016

In use

Page titles from sites that set their text in sans-serif.

Share among the 7570 sites we can trace back to 2016Dashed lines before September 2026 are estimates from web archives. Solid lines are our weekly crawl. The chart follows a fixed set of 7570 sites, not every site in the rankings.
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PeriodSourceBody textHeadings
2016 Q1Web archive estimate, 1072 sites1.3%1.0%
2016 Q2Web archive estimate, 1810 sites1.6%1.0%
2016 Q3Web archive estimate, 186 sites2.7%0.5%
2016 Q4Web archive estimate, 584 sites1.4%1.0%
2017 Q1Web archive estimate, 492 sites1.6%1.2%
2017 Q2Web archive estimate, 1682 sites1.9%1.4%
2017 Q3Web archive estimate, 629 sites1.4%0.9%
2017 Q4Web archive estimate, 467 sites1.1%0.9%
2018 Q1Web archive estimate, 451 sites0.9%0.4%
2018 Q2Web archive estimate, 1970 sites1.2%0.9%
2018 Q3Web archive estimate, 2233 sites1.4%1.0%
2018 Q4Web archive estimate, 1376 sites1.5%1.2%
2019 Q1Web archive estimate, 2256 sites1.5%1.2%
2019 Q2Web archive estimate, 2857 sites1.6%1.4%
2019 Q3Web archive estimate, 2064 sites1.7%1.3%
2019 Q4Web archive estimate, 2297 sites1.3%1.0%
2020 Q1Web archive estimate, 2273 sites1.3%1.1%
2020 Q2Web archive estimate, 1919 sites1.1%0.9%
2020 Q3Web archive estimate, 1530 sites1.1%0.9%
2020 Q4Web archive estimate, 1473 sites1.1%1.1%
2021 Q1Web archive estimate, 1634 sites1.2%0.9%
2021 Q2Web archive estimate, 1333 sites1.1%0.9%
2021 Q3Web archive estimate, 2057 sites0.8%0.7%
2021 Q4Web archive estimate, 1750 sites0.9%0.7%
2022 Q1Web archive estimate, 2101 sites1.2%1.1%
2022 Q2Web archive estimate, 2374 sites1.4%1.2%
2022 Q3Web archive estimate, 1592 sites1.7%1.4%
2022 Q4Web archive estimate, 1090 sites1.7%1.5%
2023 Q1Web archive estimate, 1734 sites2.0%1.6%
2023 Q2Web archive estimate, 1631 sites2.1%1.8%
2023 Q3Web archive estimate, 2019 sites2.0%1.8%
2023 Q4Web archive estimate, 2074 sites2.0%1.8%
2024 Q1Web archive estimate, 1743 sites1.9%1.7%
2024 Q2Web archive estimate, 1201 sites1.7%1.6%
2024 Q3Web archive estimate, 1764 sites1.8%1.6%
2024 Q4Web archive estimate, 1490 sites0.9%0.7%
2025 Q1Web archive estimate, 1484 sites2.0%1.6%
2025 Q2Web archive estimate, 411 sites1.9%1.7%
2025 Q3Web archive estimate, 2422 sites1.1%1.0%
2025 Q4Web archive estimate, 2463 sites1.2%1.2%
2026 Q1Web archive estimate, 276 sites1.5%1.5%
2026 Q2Web archive estimate, 186 sites2.7%2.7%
2026 Q3Web archive estimate, 83 sites1.2%1.2%
Sep 27, 2026Our crawl, 6,305 sites0.9%0.9%
Oct 4, 2026Our crawl, 6,330 sites0.8%0.8%
Oct 11, 2026Our crawl, 6,302 sites0.8%0.8%
Oct 18, 2026Our crawl, 6,304 sites0.8%0.8%
Oct 25, 2026Our crawl, 6,249 sites0.9%0.8%
Nov 1, 2026Our crawl, 6,272 sites0.9%0.8%

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Paired with

How sites serve sans-serif
  • System fonts60%
  • Self-hosted29%
  • Google Fonts11%

Switched to it

  1. meteofor.com.ua changed its body text from PTRoot to Sans Serif

  2. meteofor.com.ua changed its headings from PTRoot to Sans Serif

Switched away

No confirmed switches away from sans-serif yet.

Sites using sans-serif

SiteCategoryBodyHeadingsPlatform
16bpp.netindiesans-serifsans-serif
ahrq.govgovernmentsans-serifsans-serif
akkartik.nameindiesans-serifsans-serif
akselmo.devindiesans-serifsans-serif
allgabar.compopularsans-serifsans-serifWordPress
ameba.jppopularsans-serifsans-serif
aphyr.comindiesans-serifKlavika
appjet.comstartupssans-serifsans-serif
appmedia.jppopularsans-serifsans-serifWordPress
archlinux.orgdevtoolssans-serifsans-serif
artemis.shindiesans-serifsans-serif
avto.netpopularsans-serifsans-serif
beej.usindiesans-serifsans-serif
bharatx.techstartupssans-serifsans-serifWordPress
blockaway.netpopularsans-serifsans-serif
blockstream.comstartupssans-serifRigid Square
blog.demofox.orgindiesans-serifsans-serifWordPress
blog.jsbarretto.comindiesans-serifsans-serif
blog.liw.fiindieserifsans-serif
bokeplot.compopularsans-serifsans-serifWordPress
brianmckenna.orgindiesans-serifsans-serif
bufferbox.comstartupssans-serifLinux Libertine
bytes.zoneindiesans-serifBarlow Condensed
caraway.comecommercesans-serifsans-serif
castlebet.com.napopularsans-serifsans-serif
cellbyte.comstartupssans-serifCrimson Pro
chichi-pui.compopularsans-serifsans-serif
contalink.comstartupssans-serifLexend
crawshaw.ioindieTimes New Romansans-serif
croxyproxy.compopularsans-serifsans-serif
csfd.czpopularsans-serifserif
datagubbe.seindiesans-serifsans-serif
debian.orgdevtoolssans-serifsans-serif
drive2.rupopularsans-serifsans-serif
eiga.compopularsans-serifsans-serif
esbuild.github.iodevtoolssans-serifsans-serif
evryhealth.comstartupsAveniersans-serifNext.js
finalank.netpopularsans-serifsans-serif
flairlabs.aistartupssans-serifInstrument Sans
floyd.comecommercesans-serifsans-serif
flyingpenguin.comindiesans-serifsans-serifWordPress
google.comenterprisesans-serifsans-serif
gtplsaathi.compopularsans-serifsans-serif
honeydue.comstartupssans-serifsans-serif
house.govgovernmentsans-serifGeorgia
iamcook.rupopularsans-serifVerdana
idlewords.comindiesans-serifsans-serif
imperialviolet.orgindieserifsans-serif
incoherency.co.ukindiesans-serifsans-serif
inquirer.comnewsInquirer Headlinesans-serif