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END OF THE UNIVERSE

GIMME YOUR
MONEY
punk!

JEREMIAS MENICHELLI

jeremenichelli.io

@jeremenichelli

FRIENDS

Season 9 Episode 15

Gimme me your money, punk!
  • Deeply in love with the web
  • Started with responsive sites, internalization and accessibility
  • Big scale applications, tooling and testing
  • Developing and leading rich animated web experiences
  • Now... design systems!

a little bit about Me

I NEED TO GOOGLE HOW FLEXBOX WORKS EVERY SINGLE TIME

  • Less limited web design
  • They help building identity
  • Cross-browsing and system consistency
  • Other alternatives aren't accessible or SEO friendly

WHY WE LOVE WEB FONTS

USING WEB FONTS
IS A FAIR AND

VALID CHOICE

USERS
WANT/NEED

THE CONTENT

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
  <link
    href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora|Oswald:700"
    rel="stylesheet"> 
  <title>Gimme your content, punk!</title>
</head>
<body>
    ...
</body>
</html>
body {
  font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}

h1, h2 {
  font-family: 'Oswald', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
}
  • CSS blocks document rendering
  • Family font declaration blocks text rendering

ISSUES IN THIS APPROACH

FOIT

Flash of Invisible Text

FOUT

Flash of Unstyled Text

  • Default to system fonts
  • Async load stylesheet with font face declaration
  • Observe fonts
  • Switch to web fonts when ready

SOLUTION

import store from 'store-css' // by me, also possible with loadCSS by Filament group
import FontFaceObserver from 'fontfaceobserver' // by Bram Stein

// async load stylesheet with font declaration
store.css(
  'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans|Oswald:700',
  { crossOrigin: true }
)

// observe fonts
const bodyFamily = new FontFaceObserver('Lora').load()
const headingFamily = new FontFaceObserver('Oswald', { weight: 700 }).load()

// switch to web fonts when ready
bodyFamily.then(() => document.documentElement.classList.add('lora-ready'))
headingFamily.then(() => document.documentElement.classList.add('oswald-ready'))
body {
  font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}

.lora-ready body {
  font-family: 'Lora';
}

h1, h2 {
  font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
}

.oswald-ready h1, .oswald-ready h2 {
  font-family: 'Oswald';
}

font-display

@font-face {
  font-family: YourWebFont;
  src: url(/path/to/fonts/your-web-font.woff22) format('woff2'),
       url(/path/to/fonts/your-web-font.woff) format('woff');
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
font-display-late-swap

BROWSER SUPPORT

Articles

BLOG POSTS BY ME

Tweet extracted from BuzzFeedJS parody account
Photos from
Unsplash by Joel Fulgencio and Pau Casals

THANKS

Gimme your content, punk!

By Jeremias Menichelli

Gimme your content, punk!

Web fonts are great, they help us bring to the web identity, interesting designs and experiences... but your users want the content, and that should be our priority. This is a short story about proper custom font delivery for the web.

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