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This is one of the linked example sites: http://www.danhigbie.com/ http://www.danhigbie.com/ Firebug says the font pack from Typekit is over 575kb. That's a l
by chaosmachine 16y ago
This is one of the linked example sites:
http://www.danhigbie.com/ http://www.danhigbie.com/
Firebug says the font pack from Typekit is over 575kb. That's a lot of bytes to add to your pageload, and (in Firefox at least) it causes noticeable page redrawing as the font files are loaded.
So, while this is neat, I'd probably still go with a simple png file for things like site logos.
(I realize this is more of a critique of Typekit than the jQuery plugin; the plugin itself comes in at under 1kb.)
- bjg 16y agoNo redrawing was observed while viewing in Chrome 9.0.597.16
- uggedal 16y agoWebkit based browsers don't show the text before the @font-face font is loaded. You can achieve the same effect in Firefox and Opera by using WebFont Loader: http://24ways.org/2010/using-the-webfont-loader-to-make-browsers-behave-the-same http://24ways.org/2010/using-the-webfont-loader-to-make-brow...
- godDLL 16y agoAnd if you're serving pages to the other end of the world it becomes prohibitively slow. I waited about 30 seconds for anything to show up on the page.
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