Typekit Practice

More control with Typekit’s font events

Sean McBride, writing for Typekit:

We deliver fonts as quickly as we can to as many platforms as possible, but there may occasionally be users for whom fonts load slowly or not at all. The reasons for this can be outside of our control — like a slow connection, an old browser or operating system, or a user preference that disables web fonts. In these cases, you want your page to degrade gracefully, ensuring that the content is still accessible and minimizing distracting changes to your layout. Font events provide the additional control that makes this graceful degradation possible. They let you change the style or behavior of your site in response to slow loading or inactive web fonts.