Ensure text remains visible during webfont load in Shopify
December 22, 2021 | 5 min read
1. Identification Webfonts load
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The easiest way to avoid showing invisible text while custom fonts load is to temporarily show a system font. By including font-display: swap in your @font-face style.
2. What is @font-face?
A @font-face is a simple CSS rule through which you can apply a custom font to a text. It has extensions like woff2, woff, ttf, etc.
For example, a @font-face code will look like this-
You can easily fix this issue
Css Property:- font-display: swap;
Before
@font-face {font-family: 'Pacifico';font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;src: local('Pacifico Regular'),local('Pacifico-Regular'),
url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/pacifico/v12/FwZY7-Qmy14u9lezJ-6H
6MmBp0u-.woff2) format('woff2');}After
@font-face {font-family: 'Pacifico';font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;src: local('Pacifico Regular'),local('Pacifico-Regular'),
url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/pacifico/v12/FwZY7-Qmy14u9lezJ-6H 6MmBp0u-.woff2)
format('woff2');Font-display: swap;}3. Google Fonts
Google Fonts won’t add font-display: swap; rule to their font, but now they support a new query parameter to apply the font-display: swap; by adding the &display=swap parameter at the end of the google font file.
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Before :-
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis,.com/css?family=Roboto:400,700"rel="stylesheet">
After :-
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,700&display=swap"rel="stylesheet">
