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What are the most popular web fonts in the world?

Update 1/2019: We shut down our tracking stats! Sorry to see it go, but we moved on to other projects! We are tracking nearly 2000 of the most popular web fonts across 10,000 of the most visited websites ranked by Alexa. Head on over to Fonts of the World to see and explore the data, and click some examples to see what you are missing! The data is very interesting. Arial has the lions share of usage. Will Arial be the most popular font…forever? And look at how widespread the usage of icon fonts has become: as of today, the fifth most popular web fonts in the world is an icon font.

Most popular web fonts usage trends: coming soon!

We are adding weekly data and trending charts so we can track web font usage over time. It will be fascinating to see what the data reveals as the weeks go by and the data piles up. Stop by Fonts of the World, and don’t forget to sign up for the newsletter!

Providence SEO: Dominate the Ocean State

We got involved with local SEO in Rhode Island back in 2004. We moved our freelance graphic design business from Columbus, Ohio, and needed to optimize our website to pick up local clients. Back in those ancient days of the web, it took very little to rank highly in the categories we wanted. Those were they days! Search engines have changed a lot since those halcyon days.

Our Providence SEO adventure

Years later we are still highly ranking for any term we need to for our graphic design blog, BonFX. Our media has sold at the top of it’s category for over 5 years. For instance, google “font combinations” and buy our book 🙂 Our Rhode Island design agencies post is still our most visited local, Rhode Island-optimized post. We have had thousands of visitors to that page, for years. That is not going to change any time soon. It’s safe to say you need this kind of “web traffic” too.

More leads through website optimization

It’s very simple to get started using the form below or visiting us here, and we now offer this service to you as a part of our expanding web and design business based in Warwick. Our methods are simple, proven, and powerful! You can rank your local RI business, in most cases, very easily if you know what to do. And you need a real Providence SEO to pull it off. And yes, you really do need the kind of traffic from being in the top 10 of the search engine results (watch our 30 second video: SEO RI). Well, what do you do? You hire us, and get going to work for you. Our powerful domain software coupled with our exclusive trade methods can get just about any local business in on the first page of Google in a very short period of time. Each client is different, but the method is the same. Yes, you are interested. And what is the final question?

Do you have too many clients for your local business?

This is a problem you probably don’t have, right? Our job is to give you that problem, by getting positioning you as highly as possible through our proven methods. Help us do our job for you!

Talk to us!

So please have a little chat with us. We invite you to look at how the process will work for your site.

The 14 Most Popular Free Sans-Serif Fonts That Are Actually Useful

Free fonts can be sourced from innumerable free font websites these days. Most free fonts, however, are of dubious quality and limited practicality. One of our devoted interests is collecting the most useful free fonts for use in our own projects. And so you, our dear reader, get to benefit from our research that we give away free! Today we have fourteen of the most popular free sans-serif fonts that meet our criteria for usefulness. Our criteria is very simple, and yet it is very difficult to find free typefaces that meet them. Let’s have a look at the criteria. A useful free sans-serif typeface must have these qualities or attributes:

It must be good looking
It must not have any overly-deviant or idiosyncratic glyphs that limit it’s usefulness
Have Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic weights
It must be proven to be already popular: this is an important part of the vetting process. In matters like this, the crowd’s opinion matters tremendously

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Graphic Design Quote of the Day: Creativity, not Computer Savvy

Today it is a challenge for designers to avoid being seduced by technology. As sophisticated as computer applications may be, they are only tools for the creative mind. Truly successful designs begin with ideas and concepts. As you execute your designs on the computer, your knowledge of typography, combined with your trained eye and aesthetic judgment, will provide the path to the most creative solution.

-James Craig, Designing With Type

Hostnine Review – It’s time to give these guys some credit!

It’s time to give a healthy dose of credit where it is due! With so many places to buy shared hosting, reseller hosting, and various VPS services, and with wildly-crazy levels of service and value among the myriad choices, I know it’s helpful to read reviews about web hosting companies from trusted sources. BonFX has been around long enough and has been hosted long enough with the same hosting company to offer a very qualified review. To say the least, Hostnine has been a partner for us and I want to tell you a little about them, and I want you to sign up for them if you need a new web host, reseller or shared, or a cloud VPS. … [Read More]