Companies Using Google Font API

We detect Google Font API on 10,997,995 domains, including Amazon Literary Partnership, Accenture PLC, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is Construction (4.18%).

We detect 10,997,995 domains running Google Font API across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 6,488,327 of them (59.0%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 1,589,788 domains carried a Google Font API detection previously and no longer do.

Google Font API holds 56.03% of the Font Services category, ranking #1. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.

The top alternatives to Google Font API include Font Awesome (29.66% market share), Adobe Fonts (6.38% market share), Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) (4.42% market share), Bootstrap Icons (1.1% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.

United States leads with 1,713,434 matched Google Font API domains, followed by United Kingdom (481,444), Brazil (352,187), India (344,127), France (292,064). These are counts within the 6,488,327 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 66.07% of the Google Font API domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 6,488,327 matched companies, not of all 10,997,995 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (22.35%) and 51-200 employees (7.4%).

Among the Google Font API domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, most were founded in the 2020s (20.43%), followed by the 2010s (39.13%). That matched subset is drawn from 6,488,327 companies and is not representative of all 10,997,995 detected domains. This suggests Google Font API is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Google Font API customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Location: US, UK, Brazil or India, Industry: No dominant vertical, Founded: 2010-2019, Company Age: ~5-25 years old — based on our analysis of 6,488,327 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

We detect the Google Font API on 10,997,995 active domains as of our August 2026 crawl, which is 56.03% of the Font Services category and the largest footprint of any technology we track. Read it as a count of sites that fetch fonts from Google's servers. A site that downloads the same typefaces and serves them from its own origin is invisible to this method, so the true number of sites using Google's fonts is higher and unmeasurable.

Using the hosted API is legally contested in the EU. On 20 January 2022 the Regional Court of Munich (case 3 O 17493/20) ordered a website operator to pay a visitor 100 euros because embedding Google Fonts passed the visitor's IP address to Google without a legal basis. The court's reasoning was that the fonts can be served locally, so there was no legitimate interest in the transfer. Self-hosting the font files, or using an EU-hosted mirror, removes the transfer entirely. This is not legal advice.

Yes, clearly. Germany is 3.28% of the companies we can place on Google Fonts and 7.50% on Font Awesome, which is also a third-party CDN font request but not a Google one. Same crawl, same enrichment, same mechanism, and Germany is 2.3 times under-represented on Google specifically. Bunny Fonts, the EU-hosted drop-in replacement, is 6.40% German. We can show the gap; we cannot show from crawl data alone that the court rulings caused it, though they are the obvious candidate.

Mostly nothing we can see, which means self-hosting. Of the 1,472,079 domains that dropped the request entirely, all of them still live and averaging 12.2 detected technologies, 21.9% now run Adobe Fonts (about 6 times the 3.59% rate among sites still on Google Fonts) and only 0.66% run Bunny Fonts (against a 0.51% base rate, so no real signal). More than three quarters went to neither. Self-hosted fonts leave no third-party request, so they leave no detection.

Yes, entirely. There is no account, no API key and no bill. Nearly every family is published under the SIL Open Font License, which allows commercial use, bundling and self-hosting. That is why the footprint is so large and why the company-size distribution skews small: two thirds of the companies we can size have 10 employees or fewer.

Roughly 1,900 families as of mid-2026, up from about 18 at launch in 2010. The catalogue grows every month and includes variable fonts and extensive non-Latin coverage. None of that is measurable from a crawl; our number counts domains, not typefaces.

66.07% of the 5.9 million companies we could size have 10 employees or fewer and 22.35% have 11 to 50. Only 9,544 have more than 10,000 employees, and most of those appear through a secondary property: Amazon via ir.aboutamazon.com, Deloitte via my.deloitte.com, Bank of America via locators.bankofamerica.com.

The United States at 27.89% of enriched companies, then the United Kingdom (7.84%), Brazil (5.73%), India (5.60%), France (4.75%), Spain (4.00%) and the Netherlands (3.98%). Germany is eleventh at 3.28%, which is a long way below where it usually sits in web technology data and is the most interesting number in this table.

All of them, roughly evenly. Construction leads at 4.18%, then IT Services and IT Consulting (3.85%), Retail (3.70%), Business Consulting (3.23%) and Real Estate (3.16%). Nothing reaches 5%. A category leader normally takes 10% to 30% in its top industry; a flat distribution is what a universal default looks like.

Self-hosting is the alternative most sites actually pick, and it is also the fastest: it removes a DNS lookup, a TLS handshake and a third-party request. Tools like Fontsource package the same open-source families for local serving. Bunny Fonts (160,960 domains) mirrors the Google Fonts API on EU servers, so it is a one-line host swap that keeps the CDN but changes who receives the visitor's IP. Adobe Fonts (1,253,137 domains) is the main commercial option and comes bundled with several site builders.

39.13% were founded in the 2010s, 20.43% in the 2020s, 17.77% in the 2000s and 9.26% in the 1990s. The spread is unusually even, and that evenness is the finding: this is a default that accumulated across every generation of company that has built a website since 2010, not a cohort that adopted it together.

It costs an extra DNS lookup and TLS handshake to a host that is not yours, and modern browsers no longer share a cross-site font cache, so the old argument that a visitor probably has the file already from another site no longer holds. That is why self-hosting is now the standard performance recommendation as well as the standard privacy one, and it is consistent with what we see: over 1.47 million live domains have removed the request.

Three signals: a <link> whose href points at fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.google.com or fonts.gstatic.com; a WebFonts JavaScript global; and a script loaded from a Google APIs webfont path. All three require the page our crawler fetched to actually reach out to Google. None of them can see a font file served from the site's own domain.

There is not a meaningful one, and that is worth saying plainly rather than manufacturing a segment. At 11 million domains spread evenly across every industry, every company age and every size band below 50 employees, the profile of a Google Fonts user is the profile of a website. The useful segmentation on this page is the opposite direction: who has stopped, and where.