Scott Jehl on Nostr: CSS/Fonts: It's really unfortunate that the typical patterns for loading web fonts ...
CSS/Fonts: It's really unfortunate that the typical patterns for loading web fonts from providers (Google Fonts, etc) start with a render-blocking third-party request just to get the @font-face CSS rules (note: not the actual fonts yet) which should ideally be in our own CSS from the start. I should blog about the reasons we can't do that reliably with many providers, but it's such a shame we can't because leading with a performance anti-pattern transfers the cost of the service to the users.
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