Adobe Blank Font
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- ESKEMA
Adobe today launched Adobe Blank, a new open-source OpenType font that, at first glance, does absolutely nothing. Indeed, the whole point of the font, as its creator Ken Lunde writes today, is to render every Unicode character as a “non-spacing and non-marking glyph.”
The idea here is to use Blank to avoid seeing your operating system’s or browser’s default font before the actual web-font has rendered.
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/29…
Link to the font: http://sourceforge.net/adobe/ado…
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- ernexbcn0
What's to discuss.
- detritus0
aaah, that's quite a clever wrkaround.
if a little perverse.
- detritus0
Hold on - it weighs 80kb.
That's totally stupid.
"Let's add in 80kb here so we don't get a glitch when loading in four 120kb fonts whilst were downloading 20kb of js and 0.5Mb of images.."
- ernexbcn0
When I use Google Web Fonts on the html head I append a class "loading" to the html tag that the body tag inherits opacity: 0 (that loads pretty quickly, without using any JS library. Then on the JS that loadeds at the bottom of the page I listen for the Google WebFont Loader API event "fontactive" and when that happens I remove the class "loading" from the html tag.
That's how I prevent FOUT (font out of style).
- ESKEMA0
yeah, I don't get the point if it weights 80kb. It would make sense if it were around 20's or something..
- detritus0
Might be worthwhile making region-specific versions, rather than catering for the entire unicode range. How many sites have you made that have evey character combo on the front page?
- lvl_130
*dumps in first world problem thread