Loading Typekit fonts asynchronously The Typekit Blog
Updated: 2011-05-30 20:57:45
The Typekit Blog News about Typekit Loading Typekit fonts asynchronously May 25, 2011 The standard Typekit embed code has many advantages . It’s simple , compact , very easy to implement , and automatically helps to prevent the flash of unstyled text or FOUT These advantages make it the right choice for the vast majority of . sites The asynchronous loading patterns that we’ll discuss in this post provide a useful alternative in situations where you must eliminate any possibility that a problem loading the kit could interfere with loading the rest of the page . Asynchronous patterns are longer , more difficult to implement , and require extra work to avoid the FOUT . But these approaches ensure that your page won’t wait for the kit in the unlikely event that something goes wrong somewhere