Fount review
A free bookmarklet for inspecting rendered web fonts, sizes, weights, and styles in context.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Fount is a free web-based bookmarklet from Art=Work for identifying typography directly on webpages. It targets solo users and small teams, especially web designers and developers who need to inspect text in its live context. After activation, you click text elements on a site to see which font from the stack is actually rendered, together with its size, weight, and style. This focus makes Fount suitable for quick checks of existing webpage typography rather than broader font research.
Setup centers on the browser bookmarks bar: save the bookmarklet, open a compatible webpage, activate Fount, and click text to inspect it. The published compatibility list includes Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 8 or later, giving the tool coverage across several browser environments. Because Fount runs as a bookmarklet on the web, it does not require a packaged browser extension or a separate desktop installation. The workflow is intentionally narrow and direct for in-context checks.
Fount’s standout capability is reporting the font that is actually rendered from a font stack, rather than only showing declared CSS choices. Its output also includes the selected text’s font size, weight, and style, which helps when comparing typography across page elements. The trade-off is scope: Fount does not perform image matching, so it is not suited to identifying typefaces from logos, screenshots, or other graphics. Choose it for free, browser-based webpage inspection; choose another tool when image-based matching or an extension-based workflow is required.
Fount pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Identifies the font actually rendered from a webpage’s font stack
- Reports font size, weight, and style for clicked text
- Works with Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 8+
- Where it doesn't
- Requires bookmarklet activation from the browser bookmarks bar
- Available as a bookmarklet rather than a packaged browser extension
- Does not provide image matching for identifying fonts from graphics
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