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A rant on web font licenses

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The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)

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Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)

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Page Weight Matters (2012)

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Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts

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More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web (2021)

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Big Fat Websites (2021)

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System Font Stack

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Please stop disabling zoom

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Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer

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How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts

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Making Websites Small

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Font licensing is ill, please help heal it

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The website obesity crisis (2015)

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Faster web fonts

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Stop Using Icon Fonts

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Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone

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Self-host your fonts for better performance

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How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?

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Browser Font Rendering Inconsistencies

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The Fastest Google Fonts

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Should you self-host Google Fonts?

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AirPods Pro Page Performance

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Today I solved a twelve-year-old Outlook mystery

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339 Bytes of Responsive CSS

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Page Weight Matters (2012)

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Delivering WordPress in 7kb

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Is Ruby Too Slow for Web-Scale?

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The bloat of AMP

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Why website body text should be bigger

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The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)

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The Fastest Blog in the World (2015)

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Web fonts, boy, I don't know

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Web Bloat Score Calculator

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How the Web Became Unreadable

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Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

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The real responsive design challenge is RSS

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The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)

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The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install

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How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster

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No comic sans in httpd status pages

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The Website Obesity Crisis

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Page Weight Matters (2012)

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Web Fonts Performance

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Web Fonts Collateral Damage of Ad Blockers

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The Fastest Blog in the World

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Google Font Effects

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How a new HTML element will make the Web faster

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We switched from an icon font to SVG

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Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map

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Responsive Design is Not About Screen Sizes Any More

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Introducing Cloud Typography Webfonts by H&FJ

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3px of padding makes all the difference in the world

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Why I created Comic Sans

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Stop Using Small Font Sizes

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Why don't websites immediately display their text these days?

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Page Weight Matters

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Google Homepage Size Over Time

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CSS Font Stack: A complete collection of web safe CSS font stacks

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Responsive Typography

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1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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A single tweet page is 2.0 MB

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Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps

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16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake

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Formatting your web content to be a pleasure to read

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On the web server scalability and speed are almost the same thing

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Best Practices of Combining Typefaces

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Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory

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