Web platform features explorer - font-display

Web platform features explorer

The font-display CSS descriptor sets whether to show a substitute font or nothing while a font face loads. The property manages what's known as a flash of unstyled text or flash of invisible text.

Status

Baseline Widely Available (since 2022-07-15)

MDN documentation

font-display

Specifications

CSS Fonts Module Level 4 (#font-display-desc), from Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (W3C).

Browser support (view on caniuse.com)

Chrome 60 Released on 2017-07-25
Chrome Android 60 Released on 2017-08-01
Edge 79 Released on 2020-01-15
Firefox 58 Released on 2018-01-23
Firefox for Android 58 Released on 2018-01-22
Safari 11.1 Released on 2018-04-12
Safari on iOS 11.3 Released on 2018-03-29

Developer signals

State of CSS 2024: features/all_features question

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