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Using Custom Fonts Responsibly, an Akamai Animated Short

December 04, 2015 Watch in 5 minutes

In this short animated feature that was created working with friends at Akamai, I describe some of the perceived performance issues associated with web fonts. Perhaps you might be able to tell: this is not my voice.

Watch on YouTube: Using Custom Fonts Responsibly, an Akamai Animated Short

The video is hosted on YouTube.


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Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://zachleat.com/is a builder for the web at IndieWeb Avatar for https://fontawesome.com/Font Awesome and the creator/maintainer of IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.devEleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 84 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of CloudCannon, Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS. Learn more about Zach »

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