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Simon Hearne, who has been keeping a closer eye on unexpected layout shifts ever since Core Web Vitals came into play: One common cause of layout shift is surprisingly difficult to resolve though: flashes of unstyled text (FOUT). In this post we will explore the surprisingly complex world of text rendering on the web and …
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glyphhangerglyphhanger is a great tool to work with web fonts, developed by the folks at Filament Group. It serves two goals: It shows what unicode-ranges are used on a web page: # local and remote URLs $ glyphhanger ./test.html $ glyphhanger https://example.com # output characters instead of Unicode code points $ glyphhanger ./test.html –string # …