Zach’s ugly mug (his face) Zach Leat­herman

Using Custom Fonts Responsibly, an Akamai Animated Short

Watch in 5 minutes December 04, 2015

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.

Zach Leatherman is a builder for the web at Font Awesome and the creator of Build Awesome (née Eleventy/11ty), an award-winning open source website generator. He measures website performance with speedlify and at one point became too fixated on web fonts. He has given 86 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, State of the Browser, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Learn more about Zach »