Show HN: I'm crawling 11k homepages every week to track which fonts they use

Category: other

Tags: web-crawling, typography, data-journalism, dataset, typescript, playwright

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

Fonts Over Time is a data journalism project that crawls ~11,000 homepages weekly in a real browser to track which typefaces are used for body text and headings, then publishes the aggregate trends, per-site and per-font pages, and downloadable datasets. It's interesting because it turns a niche aesthetic question into a longitudinal, reproducible dataset with opt-out mechanisms, alias handling, and open exports.

Target audience: designers, frontend devs, data journalists, typography enthusiasts, researchers

Repository: https://fontsovertime.com/ · TypeScript

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