CSS @font-face: The Complete Guide to Loading Custom Fonts Right
Most @font-face tutorials cover the basics and say 'add font-display: swap'. That's not wrong, but it's about 20% of what you need to know. This guide covers all 5 font-display values, variable font axes, font-synthesis: none, the Font Loading API, font-variant-numeric, modern system font stacks, the adjusted fallback pattern that eliminates layout shift, unicode-range, FOIT/FOUT/FOFT, preload's LCP trade-off, and whether you should still use local() in 2026.
