#webfonts
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #webfonts from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #webfonts
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-09 20:04 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-09 20:04 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #webfonts.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-09 20:04 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~112187 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00
Languages: English (35) · German (4)
Avg boosts / post: 4.3
Top of the latest posts
Incremental Font Transfer is now an @W3C Candidate Recommendation. IFT defines a method to incrementally transfer a font from server to client. The client loads only the portion(s) of the font that they actually need, significantly reducing
The @w3c WebFonts working group now has a fully functional Demo of Incremental Font Transfer which compares IFT to normal font loading with Unicode-range static subsetting. Just click on "next text sample" to see the font being upgraded in
On the W3C blog "WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C’s journey of fonts on the web" by @svgeesus Chris described the story of a very interesting historical milestone on the decades-long road of W3C’s work on fonts on the web. https://www.w3.org/bl
What “webfonts” means
WikipediaWeb typography, like typography generally, is the design of pages – their layout and typeface choices. Unlike traditional print-based typography, pages intended for display on the World Wide Web have additional technical challenges and – given its ability to change the presentation dynamically – additional opportunities. Early web page designs were very simple due to technology limitations; modern designs use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript and other techniques to deliver the typographe
“Web typography” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#webfonts across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #webfonts straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/webfonts