GOOGLE FONTS DOWNLOAD

To realistically load in 100ms a Google Font must already be in the visitors cache. If a font hasn’t downloaded in 100ms the fallback will persist. This mode is very similar to fallback, except the wait time is a lot lower.

GOOGLE FONTS DOWNLOAD

If the Google Font can’t download in 3 seconds or less it will continue using the fallback. The browser will initially show a fallback font, if the Google Font is downloaded within 3 seconds it will swap the fonts. The browser will initially show a fallback font, then once the Google Font has downloaded it will swap the fonts. The browser will show invisible text for up to 3 seconds, it will then display the Google Font if it has downloaded. The default value, the font display mode is set by the browser and chosen from the four options below.

The font display property has five potential values: This is referred to as the Flash of Invisible Text (FOIT). That means if your visitors internet connection is slow or there are problems connecting to, they could be shown a blank space for up to a couple of seconds. When the font-display property is not set for Google Fonts, the browser waits until the font has been downloaded before showing any text. This GitHub request from 2016 amassed hundreds of comments and upvotes. The integration of font-display had been a heavily requested feature for years. Note: In the announcement image the parameter is incorrectly labelled ‘font-display=’, the parameter is just ‘display=’. On May 9th it was announced that Google Fonts would support the font-display CSS property.

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