I started out wanting to ask a question along the lines of How can I
set things up so that if a user has a font locally, it will be used, but
if not, download it as a webfont?, but that was all of a sudden
obvious: the usual method of setting up a font stack, e.g.,
font-family:
1. In this sort of situation, is the webfont unconditionally downloaded,
or is it ignored unless/until actually needed?
I think it is ignored. According to the spec, the fonts can be
automatically fetched and downloaded _when_needed_. In a quick check (in
Chrome 33) the font was not
On 03/13/2014, at 6:30 AM, Chris Rockwell wrote:
1. In this sort of situation, is the webfont unconditionally downloaded,
or is it ignored unless/until actually needed?
I think it is ignored. According to the spec, the fonts can be
automatically fetched and downloaded _when_needed_.
Hi Kathy,
It depends on your approach. Web designers tend to use web fonts for their
preferred fonts, and use of web fonts are becoming more prevalent. With
load times of fonts you will find different browsers have different
strategies, some load a local font then refresh when web font has
