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Incremental Font Transfer has the potential to change *everything* (for the better) about how we load web fonts: https://typo.social/@pixelambacht/112762627296863187

Been waiting for something like this for about 10 years—exciting news!

4 replies

Khalid ⚡ 14 min later

@zachleat So the “incremental” part is driven by the use of CSS classes and their font? Am I understanding this correctly?
1. Zach Leatherman 40 min later
  
  @khalidabuhakmeh I don’t think CSS classes is the accurate lever there. Font loading is already driven by code points in use on an HTML page
Matt Wilcox 1 hr later

@zachleat Cautiously excited.
Now to hope that this doesn't also mean a vector for spying/tracking somehow.
Christian "Schepp" Schaefer 16 hr later

@zachleat finally! Remembering discussing this with you back in 2018 at performance.now(): https://workingdraft.de/on-tour-perfnow-zach-leatherman/ (amongst other things)