Web Fonts as a Progressive Enhancement, Ampersand 2013

AS PROGRESSIVE ENHANCEMENT @andyhume Ampersand, 2013 WEB FONTS Sunday, December
29, 13

What’s this? Sunday, December 29, 13

This is... an outage Sunday, December 29, 13

This is... downtime Sunday, December 29, 13

This is... lost page views Sunday, December 29, 13

This is... lost revenue Sunday, December 29, 13

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Meaning is the baseline. Design is an enhancement. Paul Lloyd
https://speakerdeck.com/paulrobertlloyd/the-edge-of-the-web Sunday, December 29, 13

Meaning is the baseline Sunday, December 29, 13

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_jorr/325224175/ Unreliable Sunday, December 29, 13

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vpickering/6824364286/ Resilient Sunday, December 29, 13

Progressive enhancement So, the conclusion is that this is the
best way to deal with this. Yay us. Next, how do we do that. http://www.flickr.com/photos/8040811@N06/3167877765 Progressive enhancement Sunday, December 29, 13

HTML CSS The path to render START RENDER Sunday, December
29, 13

HTML CSS The path to render FONT FONT FONT START
RENDER Sunday, December 29, 13

HTML CSS The path to render FONT FONT FONT START
RENDER TEXT RENDER Sunday, December 29, 13

What causes this? FALLBACK BLOCKING BLOCKING + TIMEOUT Internet Explorer
Safari Mobile Safari Chrome Opera (Blink) Firefox Opera (Presto) Sunday, December 29, 13

http://www.flickr.com/photos/droetker0912/5542920908/ A solution Sunday, December 29, 13

Web font loader Provide control over font loading Remove fonts
from the critical path Make cross-browser behaviour consistent Sunday, December 29, 13

Web font loader <link href="/myfonts.css" rel="stylesheet" /> Sunday, December 29,
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Web font loader <link href="/myfonts.css" rel="stylesheet" /> var WebFontConfig =
{ custom: { families: ['Clarendon', 'Clarendon Bold'], urls: ['/myfonts.css'] } }; Sunday, December 29, 13

Web font loader <link href="/myfonts.css" rel="stylesheet" /> var WebFontConfig =
{ custom: { families: ['Clarendon', 'Clarendon Bold'], urls: ['/myfonts.css'] } }; var s = document.createElement('script'); s.src = '//ajax.googleapis.com/webfonts.js'; document.head.appendChild(s); Sunday, December 29, 13

Web font loader <body class="clarendon-loading"> <body class="clarendon-loaded"> Sunday, December 29,
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Web font loader <body class="clarendon-loading"> <body class="clarendon-loaded"> h1 { font-family:
georgia, serif; } .clarendon-loaded h1 { font-family: Clarendon, georgia, serif; } Sunday, December 29, 13

http://www.flickr.com/photos/droetker0912/5542920908/ More solutions Sunday, December 29, 13

Sunday, December 29, 13

Requirements Sunday, December 29, 13

Requirements Never block rendering Sunday, December 29, 13

Requirements Never block rendering Avoid flash of fallback font Sunday,
December 29, 13

Requirements Never block rendering Avoid flash of fallback font Compress
and subset fonts as much as possible Sunday, December 29, 13

and subset fonts as much as possible Reduce HTTP requests to as few as possible Sunday, December 29, 13

and subset fonts as much as possible Cache as aggressively as browsers allow Reduce HTTP requests to as few as possible Sunday, December 29, 13

and subset fonts as much as possible Cache as aggressively as browsers allow Reduce HTTP requests to as few as possible Websites do not need to look the same in every browser Sunday, December 29, 13

base64 encoding Applied with data uri scheme Can still load
asynchronously + More control (HTML, JSON, CSS) - Complicates build process - Font format support must be detected + Easily combine fonts into one file Sunday, December 29, 13

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Base64 encoding Applied with data uri scheme Can still load
asynchronously + More control (HTML, CSS, JSON, XML) - Complicates build process - Font format support must be detected + Easily combine fonts into one file Sunday, December 29, 13

Defer fonts to second page Download the font on the
first page but don’t show it until second page. Check page views per visit metrics + Avoids FOUT on subsequent pages - Fonts missing on first page view Sunday, December 29, 13

Subsetting Subset to your primary character set Strip out any
other unnecessary icon glyphs Fonts must be as small as possible Sunday, December 29, 13

Hinting Test things + Improves type rendering on some platforms
- Increases font file sizes Deliver a readable web font or no web font Sunday, December 29, 13

Caching HTTP caching is vital + Stops fonts being downloaded
unnecessarily - Various methods differ in complexity localStorage works Appcache (might) work Sunday, December 29, 13

Progressive enhancement Sunday, December 29, 13

Modern browsers only Progressive enhancement Sunday, December 29, 13

Modern browsers only WOFF support only Progressive enhancement Sunday, December
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Modern browsers only WOFF support only localStorage available Progressive enhancement
Sunday, December 29, 13

MODERN BROWSER? NO FONTS SHOW FONTS NO NO SUPPORT WOFF?
FONTS IN STORAGE? NO Guardian: before text renders Sunday, December 29, 13

STORAGE AVAILABLE? NO FONTS SHOW FONTS NO DOWNLOAD FONTS: BASE64
ENCODED IN JSON CACHE FONTS IN STORAGE Guardian: after text renders Sunday, December 29, 13

Responsibility Sunday, December 29, 13

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cc Sunday, December 29, 13

Web Fonts as a Progressive Enhancement, Ampersand 2013

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