The typeface on economist.com is EconomistSans, EconomistSerif and EconomistSansHeadline, loaded across 38 @font-face declarations. Every font family, weight and source on this page is read straight from the live CSS — no image guessing, no machine learning, just the rules the browser used.
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font-family: EconomistSans, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: EconomistSerif, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: EconomistSansHeadline, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: EconomistSerifDisplay, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: SundayClarendon, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: EconomistSansOsF, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: EconomistSansLF, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: EconomistSerifLF, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: EconomistSansSC, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
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font-family: EconomistSerifOsF, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: EconomistSerifSC, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: EcoPict, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
Get Font Info inspected the homepage of economist.com and parsed 5 stylesheets totalling 295.1 KB. Inside those stylesheets we found 38 @font-face declarations — the rules a browser uses to download and register a custom typeface. The primary typefaces are served from custom web font, and 76 CSS rules reference them across the page.
Open the live inspector and hover any text on economist.com to see the exact font, weight, size and line-height for that element.
Open live font inspector for economist.comeconomist.com uses EconomistSans, EconomistSerif and EconomistSansHeadline as its primary typefaces. These fonts are loaded from a self-hosted webfont and applied across 76 CSS rules on the homepage.
economist.com loads its fonts from a self-hosted webfont. Get Font Info detected 38 @font-face declarations across 5 stylesheets on the live page.
economist.com loads EconomistSans in 5 weights: 300 900, 400, 400 900, 600, 700. If you want to match the look, request the same weights from your font host so you only ship what's actually used.
Yes — once you know the font name, you can load it from the same source. If EconomistSans isn't a fit (licensing, weight selection, look-and-feel), close alternatives include Inter, Manrope and DM Sans. Use the CSS snippet on this page as a starting point.
These fonts are self-hosted webfonts. They may be licensed commercially from a type foundry, custom-made for the brand, or freely available — you would need to identify the typeface and check its license at the foundry.
Compare the typography on economist.com with how other well-known sites load and use their fonts.
This page lists the fonts loaded by the homepage of economist.com. Get Font Info reads the live CSS — every @font-face rule, every font-family declaration — so you see the exact fonts the browser used, not an image-based guess.
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