📣🚀 Capsize release alert! Minimise webfont-induced layout shift, generating metrics-based font family fallbacks by leveraging the modern CSS `size-adjust` descriptor. (Video demonstrates layout shift between Arial and custom font. Left is before Capsize, right is after) 🧵

Exciting to see Capsize text trims coming to the platform! Being able to influence naming and implementation of future CSS via GitHub is 🔥. Trying to steer the default under text-edge for `cap` and `ex` to be `baseline` rather than `descent`. Thoughts? github.com/w3c/csswg-draf…

Had a lot of fun presenting at

Code Conference last week in Melbourne. Met so many great people, from those passionately sharing their learnings and deep dives, to the coffee chats during the breaks! Thanks again

for organising another great event 👏

Happy

day to those who celebrate 🥳 Pumped to be a part of this line up tonight. I'll be talking about improving the user experience of loading web fonts, without the trade offs. Register here 👉 melbjs.com

What does Wiki News and font metric tables have to do with layout shift caused by web fonts? Come join me for a wild ride next Wednesday to see how we are putting an end to web font related page jank.