I don’t think this is an epidemic or anything, but I’ve seen it done a few times and even advocated for. This is what I mean……
…“Typography on the web is in single color: characters are either black or red, never black and red …Then emoji hit the scene, became part of Unicode, and therefore could be expressed by characters — or “glyphs” in font terminology.
Roel Nieskens released a tool that lets you upload a font file and see what’s inside, from how many characters it contains to the number of languages it supports. Here’s what you see once you upload a font, in this …
There’s a lot of good news in the world of web fonts!
unicode-range, the last modern browser to do so.font-display are landing in Safari and Firefox.Using custom fonts is getting increasingly easier. We’ll cover the basics of usage here and get into the more in-depth features that are helpful for developers who want to level up and aim to perfect advanced concepts, like loading font files.
System font stacks got hot about a year ago, no doubt influenced by Mark Otto’s work putting them live on GitHub.
The why, to me, feels like (1) yay performance and (2) the site looks like the rest of …
There is a great bit in here where Glen uses Font Style Matcher to create some CSS for a fallback font that has font-size, line-height, font-weight, letter-spacing, and word-spacing adjusted so perfectly that when the web …
The font-display property defines how font files are loaded and displayed by the browser. It is applied to the @font-face rule which defines custom fonts in a stylesheet.
@font-face {
font-family: 'MyWebFont'; /* Define the custom font name */
src: 
Time for another pairing screencast! This time I have Zach Leatherman on, from Filament Group. Zach has done a lot of research, writing, and speaking about web font loading the past few years. He’s got a comprehensive guide on …
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 …
