Blog: September 2015

A Tiny Web Font Loader

Today I'm releasing TinyWFL, my tiny web font loader which is about 95% smaller than other popular loaders.

When web fonts started to gain adoption around 2010, the problem people had was FOUT - the flash of unstyled text while you waited for the browser to download the font. I think most people would agree that this has since been solved very comprehensively by webfontloader from Google and Typekit, and that it's now the de-facto standard loader - but back in 2010 or 2011 FOUT was still an issue, which is why I wrote my own.

To be accurate, my ...

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