A Brief History of that Time You Used Web Fonts—SmashingConf Barcelona

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• SmashingConf Barcelona 2015
• SmashingConf Barcelona 2015 Direct Session Link

The title of the talk was a reference to a hugely popular book written by Stephen Hawking titled A Brief History of Time. I’m not sure this was clear enough, since I put a computer generated voice as an antagonist in a few of the slides and the reference fell pretty flat. Better luck next time I guess!

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Slides on Speaker Deck (144 slides) #

Most !important thing learned at #SmashingConf from @zachleat pic.twitter.com/OVOb6ao8Ef

— Tim Malabuyo (@malabooboo) October 21, 2015

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Paired nicely with the other amazing talks at SmashingConf, the event was held at Palau de la Musica Orfeo Catalana, rated as the #3 thing to see in all of Barcelona by TripAdvisor. It was beautiful.

Still blown away by this venue. #smashingconf pic.twitter.com/vbmNCQZVmk

— Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) October 20, 2015

Links (in order of slide appearance) #

• Across all Google Web Fonts, WOFF2 is ~30% smaller than WOFF.
• font-synthesis CSS property on MDN
• font-synthesis on State of Web Type
• State of Web Type
• “People will visit a Web site less often if it is slower than a close competitor by more than 250 milliseconds.”
• “If a page hasn’t loaded in 3 seconds, up to 40% of the users will abandon the site…”
• Load CSS Asynchronously using filamentgroup/loadCSS
• The Mitt Romney Web Font Problem
• font-display CSS descriptor
• CSS Font Loading API
• Font Loading Polyfills: FontFaceOnload and FontFaceObserver
• fontfamily.io, Compatibility Tables for Default Installed Fonts
• FFFFallback

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