#Webfont loader serial#
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Web fonts are requested higher up in the waterfall. Better rendering performance than a block.Super easy to implement, one and you’re off.Keep in mind: The pros and cons for this approach are heavily dependent on the font loading strategy you pair it with, whether it be Unceremonious or font-display. Read more: The Web Fonts: Preloaded (the first half).Read more: Preload: What is it Good For?.

#Webfont loader free#

Pairs nicely with an unceremonious block and feel free to also throw in the font-display descriptor as well for bonus points.

#Webfont loader android#

Very simple: add a CSS block with WOFF and WOFF2 formats (maybe even an OpenType format too, if you want better Android to fetch your font sooner.

This is the default approach recommended by Google Fonts. Throw a naked block on your page and hope for the best. Some approaches below require subsetting for optimal performance.

Subsetting: some font licenses don’t allow subsetting.

Hosting: does the approach require self hosting or is it adaptable to work with various web font loaders provided by cloud providers/font foundries?.

Robustness: What happens if a web font request hangs? Will the text be readable or will the web font be a single point of failure (SPOF)?.

Flexibility: does the approach easily facilitate grouping web font requests and their repaints and reflows? We want control over which fonts load and when.

Browser Support: is it sufficient to work with a wide enough base to meet most projects’ browser support requirements?.

Future Friendly: will it require additional research and maintenance if a new font format comes out or will it be easily adaptable?.

We’ll evaluate how well each approach works with a growing web font budget. We want the requests to happen in parallel.

#Webfont loader serial#

Scalability: some font loading approaches encourage serial loading of web fonts.

We can take additional steps to reduce amount of time a fallback font is shown and reduce the impact of FOUT or even eliminate it altogether. Rendering Performance: FOUT is a feature that will allow you to render fallback fonts immediately and render the web font when it loads.Ease of Implementation: sometimes, simple is what makes the deadline.Will work with my existing cloud/web font hosting solution: FOFT approaches generally require self hosting, so stick with the tried and true FOUT with a Class approach. Use separate FOFT approaches for each typeface (grouping of roman, bold, italic, et cetera). I’d first recommend trying to pare your web font usage down, but if that isn’t possible stick with a standard FOFT, or FOUT with Two Stage Render approach. Will work well with a large number of web fonts: If you’re web font obsessed (anything more than 4 or 5 web fonts or a total file size of more than 100KB) this one is kind of tricky. Personally, at time of writing my preference is Critical FOFT with Data URI but will shift toward Critical FOFT with preload as browser support for preload increases. Is the best performance-oriented approach: Use one of the Critical FOFT approaches. If you have others, please leave a comment below!) ( In Defense of Web Fonts, The Value of a Web Font by Robin Rendle is a good start. But educate yourself on the benefit first. If you don’t know what web fonts are doing to improve your design, they may not be right for you. It is with that in mind that I will admit-if you’re looking for the easy way out already, you should consider not using web fonts. Is the easiest possible thing to implement: I’ve learned a lot about web fonts and at time of writing this article the current browser support is lacking for the easiest methods for effective/robust web font implementation. Is the most well rounded approach that will be good enough for most use cases: FOUT with a Class.

If you’re looking for a specific approach, I’ve prepared some handy links that will take you to the section you need. If a term is missing in the glossary, please let me know on Twitter or in the comments. If you run into a term that you don’t know, please consult the glossary of web font loading terms I’ve prepared. Updated Augwith a link to a glossary page. Updated Jwith new information on font-display. Also, SVG is probably a better long term choice. This guide is not intended for use with font icons, which have different loading priorities and use cases.