Hopefully we can find a more pleasing medium. For example, if designers used web fonts with metrics that match common built-ins the FOUT could be made much les

Hopefully we can find a more pleasing medium. For example, if designers used web fonts with metrics that match common built-ins the FOUT could be made much less jarring. (Yes, ligatures and such make that difficult in the general case, but it surely could be good enough for headlines.)