If you do this, you make the page slower to load for people blocking external fonts.
Not doing it is also nicer for people with slow/unreliable network access, where they can block fonts, or even if they don't block them, can access your page more quickly and have a render without the custom font.
Couldn't this increase FOUC? At least before you could load in your style-sheet before the font, but if you embed the font inside you get no styling at all until it can fetch all of the data, correct
unknown|5 months ago
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jraph|5 months ago
Not doing it is also nicer for people with slow/unreliable network access, where they can block fonts, or even if they don't block them, can access your page more quickly and have a render without the custom font.
olivia-banks|5 months ago
erikpukinskis|5 months ago
dspillett|5 months ago
Not if the font data is in a style tag in head, or otherwise before any content that's display might need, or be indirectly affected by, the font.
It will delay first paint on slow connections (all connections, in fact, but on a strong link you'll not notice) though.