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Getting the Most Out of Variable Fonts on Google Fonts
I have spent the past several years working (alongside a bunch of super talented people) on a font family called Recursive Sans & Mono, and it just launched officially on Google Fonts!
Wanna try it out super fast? Here’s …

The Fastest Google Fonts
When you use font-display: swap;
, which Google Fonts does when you use the default &display=swap
part of the URL , you’re already saying, “I’m cool with FOUT,” which is another way of saying web text is displayed …
How to Tame Line Height in CSS
In CSS, line-height
is probably one of the most misunderstood, yet commonly-used attributes. As designers and developers, when we think about line-height
, we might think about the concept of leading from print design — a term, interestingly enough, that …
Material Theming: Making Material Your Own!
The web is a beautiful, expressive medium that’s evolved over time as trends and technology have changed. Moments of delight and flair are what set companies apart from one another. At the same time, today’s top products rely on scalable, …
Google Fonts is Adding font-display
Google announced at I/O that their font service will now support the font-display
property which resolves a number of web performance issues. If you’re hearing cries of joy, that’s probably Chris as he punches the air in celebration. He’s wanted …

Google Fonts and font-display
Hey! This whole article is about a time before May 2019 in which Google Fonts didn’t offer a way to use font-display without self-hosting the fonts.
To use font-display with Google Fonts, you include a URL parameter like &display=swap
in …