Fix flash of unstyled text

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Beer and Code Seattle Web Site

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Fix flash of unstyled text #22

Open TheDahv opened 12 years ago

TheDahv commented 12 years ago

Presents itself in IE9. The IE engine shows unstyled text while it waits for the font to download from Google. Firefox seems to do ok. Chrome/WebKit just doesn't render text until it gets the font; I kind of like that behavior.

Still, it would help with the polish on this site to get this fixed.

Here's an article on the subject that might be helpful: http://paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-font-face-fout/

trafficone commented 12 years ago

I don't see how waiting for the font to load is preferred behavior to FOUT. Additionally, why can't we just optimize the page by switching to a browser-safe font?

TheDahv commented 12 years ago

We don't have a lot of visual action going on in the site design right now. It's nice to have some typography to give the design its own character.

I can try playing around with the main body text and seeing if a more readily available font might look nicer. It would be nice to have a designer's opinion here.