Fonts that appear in Google searches - Hexagonification
The list
Alegreya*
(not Alegreya SC)
(not Alegreya Sans)
(not Alegreya Sans SC)
Juan Pablo del Peral
Amatic*
(not Amatic SC, despite it using Amatic SC. There doesn't seem to be a font just called Amatic, in fact.)
Vernon Adams font designer (Vernon Adams Jr. is an unrelated American football quarterback, hence the clarification)
Arial
(For a while, this was explicitly listed as the default font used if no override to change it was in place, but as of 2026-04-11, Google Sans is used for headers and links, but Arial is still used for body text. I don't use Google for searching all that much these days, so this change may have easily occurred well before this date. Honestly, Google Sans has a Display and Text variant, they may as well use it for everything.)
(not Arial Black, Arial Rounded MT, or other Arial variants)
(not Patricia Saunders)
(not Robin Nicholas)
Bree Serif*
Calibri
Lucas de Groot
Luc(as) de Groot
Cambria*
(not Cambria Math)
Comic Sans MS
90s font
(not 90s fonts)
90s websites
(not 90s website)
bad font
bad fonts
bad UX
best font ever
(not worst font ever)
(not Chalkboard SE, despite it being a fallback font upon successfully getting Comic Sans, apparently for iOS devices: font-family:'Comic Sans MS','Chalkboard SE','Comic Neue',Arial,sans-serif !important)
(not Comic Neue, despite it being a fallback font upon successfully getting Comic Sans, apparently for Android devices—see above.)
Comic Sans
(Not Comic Sans 2010 or Comic Sans Pro)
design fails
(not design fail)
(formerly "doge meme")
GeoCities
Vincent Connare
Courier New*
Courier* (uses Courier New; may use Courier on Mac?)
Howard Kettler
(not Bud Kettler or Howard "Bud" Kettler)
IBM Courier (also uses Courier New, not the recreation of IBM's Type1 Courier font by Darren Embry)
Garamond
(not Adobe Garamond, EB Garamond, or other fonts based on Garamond's work)
Claude Garamond
(not Silian Rail)
Georgia*
(not Georgia Ref or Georgia Pro)
(Matthew Carter designed Georgia, but searching his name produces Verdana instead)
Impact*
(not Impact 2010 or Impact Wide)
Merriweather*
(not Merriweather Sans)
Open Sans
Steve Matteson
Permanent Marker*
Playfair Display*
Playfair* (uses Playfair Display, though the two look quite similar)
Proxima Nova*
Mark Simonson
Roboto
(Christian Robertson designed Roboto, but searching his name doesn't change the font used)
(not Roboto Flex or other variants of Roboto, with the exception of Roboto Mono—see below)
(This is default on Android, so queries involving this one may not result in visible changes)
Roboto Mono*
(Christian Robertson designed Roboto Mono, but searching his name doesn't change the font used)
Tahoma*
(Matthew Carter designed Tahoma, but searching his name produces Verdana instead)
Times New Roman*
Stanley Morison
(Not Times New Roman Special, Special G1, or Special G2)
Victor Lardent
Trebuchet MS*
(Not Trebuchet 2010 or Trebuchet Pro)
Trebuchet*
(Vincent Connare designed Trebuchet MS, but searching his name produces Comic Sans MS instead)
Ultra*
Varela Round*
Varela* (uses Varela Round, despite Varela existing)
Verdana*
Matthew Carter
(not Verdana Pro)
The following have been stated to work by others but don't for me. I believe the reason why is because I'm using Windows, and these are Mac system fonts. Most of these examples are produced from local files on my computer, rather than pulling from Google's nigh-infinite CDNs. I don't have access to a Mac desktop at this time, so I'm unable to test these to verify them firsthand.
Avenir
Helvetica
In the case of Consolas, however, I would expect it to work on my Windows 10 machine, but it doesn't. It's possible the person who made the claim was mistaken—Calibri and Consolas both start with C, were made by Luc(as) de Groot, and are packaged together with modern versions of Windows.
What's going on here?
Best I can tell, behind the scenes, when you search for one of these queries, some code (presumably JavaScript, but I'm not savvy enough to know for certain) triggers the inclusion of a specific and brief inline CSS sheet—which you can find and toggle via your browser's dev tools. It and many others are unnamed, so you'll want to look at ones with only one rule.
They presumably have a list somewhere but I don't know where or how to access it. It's probably not public at all; one can only put together a list through trial and error like I did.
What you're looking for is along these lines:
* {<br>font-family:'Alegreya',Arial,sans-serif !important
So I'll break this down for you, in the event you're unfamiliar with CSS:
The asterisk is a wild card, targeting all HTML elements. It's thanks to this that the font affects all text on the page. The {curly brackets} envelope all the rules that should be applied to the preceding element—or in this case, all elements.
font-family is how you specify a font in CSS...