The New Web Typography

At the moment I'm using loadCSS (https://github.com/filamentgroup/loadCSS) to render local fonts on my projects. I wonder how difficult would be to create a subset of the font to load first, and then switch it for the full family once the site is loaded (as the article suggests).

What is the best font-loading strategy today?

Re: The New Web Typography

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Post by tomjen3 » Sat, Feb 27, 2016, 10:53 PM UTC

felipeerias wrote: post #3

fiatjaf wrote: post #2

Beautiful website.

That fails to render in Safari under iOS7.

Shouldn't be much on an issue, most I devices are on 9 or at least 8.

Re: The New Web Typography

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Post by imron » Sat, Feb 27, 2016, 10:56 PM UTC

tomjen3 wrote: post #5

felipeerias wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That fails to render in Safari under iOS7.

Shouldn't be much on an issue, most I devices are on 9 or at least 8.

It was an issue for me too.

Edit: and I'm reluctant to upgrade because my wife who had the same phone had reduced wifi signal on both 8 and 9 after upgrading.

Re: The New Web Typography

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Post by cbd1984 » Sat, Feb 27, 2016, 11:18 PM UTC

Good to see he practices what he preaches: This is entirely readable in lynx and w3m.

Re: The New Web Typography

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Post by haxiomic » Sat, Feb 27, 2016, 11:23 PM UTC

felipeerias wrote: post #3

fiatjaf wrote: post #2

Beautiful website.

That fails to render in Safari under iOS7.

It's an issue for me too, it caused by a bug with the CSS vh unit. The content is there, just a long way down! It's not too tricky to fix so I hope the author see this! (I tend to use js to fix this one)

Re: The New Web Typography

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Post by sotojuan » Sat, Feb 27, 2016, 11:26 PM UTC

This is one of the best articles I've been linked to from here. Makes me excited about designing web pages, which never happens.

Re: The New Web Typography

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Post by Palomides » Sat, Feb 27, 2016, 11:49 PM UTC

I found the wide interjected bits of content (quotes, images, graphs) really jarring; anyone have thoughts on this design approach? somewhat strange that these were also supplemented by things on the side.