How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts – Simon Hearne
A terrific in-depth look at improving the performance of web fonts.
A drop-in replacement for Google Fonts without the tracking …but really, you should be self-hosting your font files.
A terrific in-depth look at improving the performance of web fonts.
Here’s the flow that eBay use for the font-loading. They’ve decided that on the very first page view, seeing a system font is an acceptable trade-off. I think that makes sense for their situation.
Interestingly, they set a flag for subsequent visits using localStorage
rather than a cookie. I wonder why that is? For me, the ability to read cookies on the server as well as the client make them quite handy for situations like this.
Monica takes a look at the options out there for loading web fonts and settles on a smart asynchronous lazy-loading approach.
This is what Nick Sherman has been banging on about for years, and now the time has come for variable fonts …as long as typographers, browser makers, and standards bodies get behind it.
More details on Ev’s blog.
A terrific rundown of all your options when it comes to web font loading.
Going from delight to default in one straight line.
The joy of getting hands-on with HTML and CSS.
Another five articles on modern responsive web design.
For some reason, Google Fonts only provides .ttf files if you’re self-hosting. I don’t know why.
Why do I like fluid responsive typography? Let me count the ways…