Contents tagged “font”

If you're using Google Fonts service instead of self-hosting the fonts (even if they come from Google Fonts), Harry shows here the optimal performance and UX you can get with it, with lot of details, but a really simple solution.

Line-height and vertical-align are simple CSS properties. So simple that most of us are convinced to fully understand how they work and how to use them. But it’s not. They really are complex, maybe the hardest ones, as they have a major role in the creation of one of the less-known feature of CSS: inline formatting context.

A nice overview of the many variations body copy has seen since the Web exists.

In issue #11 of his great Web Fonts & Typography News newsletter, Jason Pamental shares the progress made by the W3C Web Fonts Working Group towards a new way to progressively serve fonts so that only the required new glyphs are downloaded every time new characters have to be rendered.

If you're using a web font, you're bound to see a flash of unstyled text (or FOUC), between the initial render of your websafe font and the webfont that you've chosen. This usually results in a jarring shift in layout, due to sizing discrepancies between the two fonts. To minimize this discrepancy, you can try to match the fallback font and the intended webfont’s x-heights and widths. This tool helps you do exactly that.

the advanced web font loading control offered by JavaScript still provides more than sufficient value to keep it around. You can adapt your page’s performance profile to suit a user’s network conditions, user preferences, improving the general loading behavior of self hosted fonts and third party hosting providers.