Articles Tagged
font-face

14 Articles

System Font Stack

Defaulting to the system font of a particular operating system can boost performance because the browser doesn’t have to download any font files, it’s using one it already had. That’s true of any “web safe” font, though. The beauty of …

Geoff Graham on Jan 3, 2017 (Updated on Oct 26, 2022)

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`font-display` for the Masses

Updated on January 12, 2017: Proper support checks are now part of the article body. Added information about the block value. Minor tweaks and copy edits. Enjoy!

If you’re a regular reader here at CSS-Tricks, chances are good you know …

Jeremy Wagner on Aug 19, 2016 (Updated on Nov 14, 2019)

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What’s the deal with declaring font properties on @font-face?

I hope you read that title out loud in your best Seinfeld impression.

A recent question in our forums made me aware that there are more properties that can be added to @font-face than the usual font-family and src suspects. …

Geoff Graham on Mar 25, 2016 (Updated on Jan 29, 2018)