Host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Bram Stein, Typekit’s director of web fonts and author of the Webfont Handbook (A Book Apart, 2017). The two designers discuss creating great font stacks, optimizing web font performance, FOUT versus FOIT, the horror of fallback fonts, and new technology including variable fonts and font-display: FOUT or FOIT.

Links for this episode:

• Bram Stein (@bram_stein) | Twitter
  
• Indra Kupferschmid (@kupfers) | Twitter
  
• A Book Apart, Webfont Handbook
  
• Variable Fonts for Responsive Design · An A List Apart Blog Post
  
• Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world.
  
• Font Face Observer — fast and simple web font loading
  
• Typographica
  
• Alphabettes
  
• The Typekit Blog | Variable fonts, a new kind of font for flexible design
  
• Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts – John Hudson – Medium
  
• font-display - CSS | MDN