The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading Opinions
summary
Concrete takeaways: a real audit finds 19 font files on one redesign; browsers keep text invisible for up to three seconds unless font-display is set; an external tracker import can delay font loads by ~0.5s on 3G; icon fonts produce tofu and accessibility failures; prefer self-hosting, use WOFF2, preload and variable fonts, keep fallback stacks simple to avoid layout jank, and include real italics and test with the Firefox Fonts panel to verify what actually renders.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Start
- 6:14it's WEB FONT not WEBFONT
- 7:26WEB FONTS ARE GOOD YOU SHOULD USE WEB FONTS
- 10:54PERFORMANCE BUDGETS
- 15:26BULLETPROOF FONT FACE IS DEAD
- 19:35FONTS ARE SOFTWARE THEY NEED MAINTENANCE & UPDATES TOO
- 25:27THE REAL CRITERIA TO EVALUATE WEB FONT LOADING
- 25:56REAL ITALICS
- 28:46SUBSCRIPTION PERPETUAL PREPAID FREE
- 37:045. WEB STANDARDS
- 38:40THE BEST WEB FONT HOST IS...
- 39:32THE BEST WEB FONT HOST FOR ME IS...
- 41:26THE BEST WEB BROWSER FOR WEB FONTS IS...
- 42:10preload
- 43:02Variable Fonts
- 43:27Default Visible Text
- 44:18DEVELOPER TOOLS Bonus
- 45:11THE BEST WEB BROWSER FOR WEB FONTS OVER TIME
- 45:53Foundries License Authors
