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The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading Opinions

May 16, 2019 On Twitter (archived)

Originally presented at Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf, Germany 🇩🇪 in May, 2019.

This talk was a grab bag of personal font loading opinions that I’ve been collecting over quite some time to package up for a talk. David Carson said that it was a great talk but the kerning on a few of my slides was off 😎😱😇. I was so pleased that he took the time to attend—he was around for most of the conference!

This conference really was something special. Marc Thiele is an amazing conference organizer. His attention to detail and willingness to promote other things happening in the community is incredible. If you get the chance to attend one of Marc’s conferences, do it.

Video

Watch on YouTube: The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading Opinions

Slides

The full slide deck is available on Not.ist.

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Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://zachleat.com/is a builder for the web at IndieWeb Avatar for https://fontawesome.com/Font Awesome and the creator/maintainer of IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.devEleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 83 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of CloudCannon, Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS. Learn more about Zach »

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2 Comments
  1. Greg Whitworth

    awe, you didn't actually cover the legibility of the text rendering nor animation fluidity. I was hoping you would as this is one of the areas we're looking at possibly investing further. Would you truly want the Edge behavior of show fonts first then swap? ...

  2. Harry Roberts

    I’m in talks with another provider(s) about this at the moment actually.

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