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Web Fonts Performance // Speaker Deck

Henning Koch
October 04, 2015Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Web fonts are great. They are also be really bad for front-end performance because they block rendering. You may have experienced this on a slow cellular network. Staring at a blank page is no fun, especially when the content has already loaded.

This talk explores why browser have placed fonts on the critical path, and how we can work around this while still delivering a good user experience. It also takes a look at what the future will bring to web font performance: preloading hints, the font-display property, and HTTP/2.

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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2015-10-04 08:26)