Zach’s ugly mug (his face) Zach Leat­herman

The Scoville Scale of Web Font Loading Opinions

On Twitter (archived) May 16, 2019

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.

  1. The Best Web Browser for Web Fonts—Check my work on Google Sheets

Resources

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Zach Leatherman is a builder for the web at Font Awesome and the creator of Build Awesome (née Eleventy/11ty), an award-winning open source website generator. He measures website performance with speedlify and at one point became too fixated on web fonts. He has given 86 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Learn more about Zach »