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“font-family” Doesn’t Fall Back the Way You Think
(
css
)
Apr 10, 2026
12
css
,
fonts
You’re Loading Fonts Wrong (and It’s Crippling Your Performance)
(
jon
)
Aug 21, 2025
11
fonts
,
performance
,
css
,
image-replacement
,
history
I’m More Proud of These 128 Kilobytes Than Anything I’ve Built Since
Jul 11, 2025
10
performance
,
case-studies
,
svg
,
minification
,
optimization
Avoiding FOUT With Async CSS
Sep 4, 2021
9
fonts
,
css
,
asynchronicity
Three Techniques for Performant Custom Font Usage
(
oll
/
css
)
Mar 5, 2018
8
fonts
,
performance
,
techniques
FOIT vs. FOUT, a Side by Side Comparison
(
zac
)
Oct 12, 2017
7
fonts
,
user-experience
,
comparisons
If You Really Dislike FOUT, “font-display: optional” Might Be Your Jam
(
chr
/
css
)
Aug 3, 2017
6
fonts
,
css
Critical Web Fonts
(
zac
)
Jan 4, 2016
5
fonts
,
css
,
critical-path
,
performance
,
metrics
Loading Web Fonts With the Web Font Loader
(
fon
/
css
)
Nov 16, 2015
4
fonts
,
performance
,
user-experience
The Mitt Romney Web Font Problem
(
zac
)
May 31, 2015
3
fonts
,
user-experience
,
css
,
javascript
Flash of Faux Text—Still More on Font Loading
(
zac
)
Jan 22, 2015
2
fonts
,
ttf
,
woff
,
css
,
javascript
Avoiding the FOUC v3.0
(
pau
)
Sep 23, 2009
1
javascript
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