But all these techniques had flaws.Įventually a browser native font loading technique called started to land in browsers around 2008 (although it first appeared in the CSS2 specification as far back as 1998). First there was the ‘image replacement’ technique, then there was Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR), next came cufón. For years designers were desperate to bring custom typography to the web and break out from the limitation of ‘web-safe’ fonts. Thankfully, the web is a visual medium with many opportunities to convey ideas through the use of design and typography. The web would be a pretty boring place if it were full of pages filled with paragraph after paragraph of similar text. Even non-decorative images should have words in the markup to describe them ( alt attributes). As the saying goes on the web, “content is king” and the written word makes up a huge percentage of that content. Its ability to communicate and convey ideas to a global audience is unprecedented.
The world wide web is possibly the greatest infrastructure mankind has ever created.
Before I get into that, let’s go over a few of the basics. “What font-display setting should be used to improve the experience for all users?”. In this post I’m going to jot down a few thoughts to a question that has been intriguing me for a while now.
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