Multiple font detection tools exist online. Most tell you which fonts appear on a website - the family name, weights, and styles. That's useful, but it's only half the story.
FontReport was built differently. It audits your entire site and flags commercial fonts that may require licensing, identifies GDPR concerns with Google Fonts CDN, and categorizes fonts by source and type. Here's how it compares and why full-site auditing matters.
Feature Comparison
FontReport compares against popular font identification tools including WebFontFinder, Hostwizly, DetectTheFont, WhatFont extension, FontAnalyzer, WhatFontIs, and Google Fonts Checker. Here's how the features stack up:
| Feature | FontReport | WebFontFinder | Hostwizly | DetectTheFont | FontAnalyzer | WhatFont | WhatFontIs | Google Fonts Checker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifies font families | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shows font weights/styles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shows word/character usage stats | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Scans entire website | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Analyzes font file metadata | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Identifies unused font weights | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shows font usage by page | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Categorizes fonts by source | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Flags commercial fonts | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Identifies GDPR risks | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Distinguishes primary vs fallback fonts | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Tool specifications were gathered and verified at the time of writing. Features may change over time. If you notice any errors, please contact us.
Why Full-Site Audits Matter
Single-page font checkers analyze one URL at a time. You check your homepage, everything looks fine, but you miss the commercial font someone added to a blog post template two years ago.
Full-site audits scan every accessible page on your domain. This catches fonts in blog posts, product pages, landing pages, archived content, and anywhere else they might be hiding.
Real licensing issues often lurk on less-visible pages. A developer tested a premium font on a staging page that went live. Your main site uses Google Fonts, but that forgotten landing page serves a commercial font that may need licensing. Single-page checks miss these patterns. Full-site audits find them.
What FontReport Actually Does
FontReport goes beyond identification to provide risk assessment:
Analyzes font metadata: Reads copyright information directly from font files to identify commercial fonts and their publishers.
Categorizes by source: Groups fonts into third-party CDN fonts (Adobe, Google), self-hosted commercial fonts, free fonts, and system fonts.
Shows detailed usage: Displays which pages use which fonts, which CSS files reference them, and whether they're primary or fallback fonts in your font stack.
Identifies optimization opportunities: Flags font weights you've loaded but aren't actually using on your site.
Flags licensing concerns: Highlights commercial fonts that typically require licensing and Google Fonts CDN usage that may violate GDPR.
For agencies managing multiple client sites, this consolidated view makes it possible to systematically audit licensing compliance rather than researching each font manually. Learn more about who's liable when font licensing goes wrong.
The Bottom Line
Font identification tools tell you what fonts are on a page. FontReport tells you which fonts might create legal or compliance problems across your entire site.
If you need to know "what font is that?" for design work, basic checkers work fine. If you're responsible for a business website and need to verify licensing compliance, you need a tool that flags potential issues and categorizes fonts by risk level.
Scan your website with FontReport to audit your entire site for commercial fonts that may need licensing and identify GDPR concerns before they become legal problems.
