title: Web Safe Fonts Alternatives to Montserrat and Lato
body: <p>A web design company design website for me. However, it largely uses Google font Montserrat and Lato, which lead to totally 40 font files(about 1.4MB) to be loaded when users open my website. And based on GTMatrix, 82% data transfer and 56.1% requests are for font files, which slow down my website greatly.</p>
  <p>Therefore, I want to find some web safe fonts to replace Montserrat and Lato, so that:</p>
  <ol>
  <li>The replacement fonts should look similar to the original fonts.</li>
  <li>The replacement fonts should be available in most of the visitors' systems.</li>
  <li>It is better to use a font stack so that there will be fallback fonts if these new fonts are not available on the visitors' systems.</li>
  </ol>
  <p>In this way, the browser does not need to load additional fonts when user visit my website.</p>
  <p>So, firstly, I try to find fonts similar to Montserrat and Lato, I use the following website:</p>
  <p><a href="http://www.identifont.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.identifont.com/</a></p>
  <p>It does bring out 30 fonts similar to Montserrat. I call it set A.</p>
  <p>Based in the following references, there are no standard list of web safe fonts:</p>
  <ol>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11610395/web-safe-fonts-what-exactly-does-that-mean">Web Safe fonts - What exactly does that mean?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_typography#Web-safe_fonts" rel="noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_typography#Web-safe_fonts</a></li>
  </ol>
  <p>What I use is a list at <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp" rel="noreferrer">https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp</a>, this list seems looks fine. I call it set B.</p>
  <p>Now I try to find a font in both set A and B, with Excel. I can find nothing.</p>
  <p>So my question is:</p>
  <ol>
  <li><p>Is there a better way to find web safe font alternative to a given font?</p>
  </li>
  <li><p>Since there are no font appear in both set A and B, I plan to use my eye to check the similar fonts manually, I wonder if there is an easier way to do that?</p>
  </li>
  </ol>