Smashing Book #5

July 18, 2015

I had the honor of being the technical reviewer for the Bram Stein chapter on Web Fonts Performance in Smashing Book #5.

Font formats • Font loading • Font-rendering • FOIT and FOUT • Font Loading API • Fallback fonts • Inlining fonts • Simulating swapping • Promises • Asynchronous loading and caching • Prioritized loading

Read more and purchase: Smashing Book #5

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 »

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