Have you tried embedding the font in the CSS? The overhead if the CSS is gzipped is small, and you save one request and the flashing text when the font is loade

Have you tried embedding the font in the CSS? The overhead if the CSS is gzipped is small, and you save one request and the flashing text when the font is loaded. Jammit http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/ http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/ (and presumably other asset packagers) does it automatically.