[HUD custom font]: the custom font makes UIs inaccessible for couple seconds

[legomushroom]

Since browser spends some time downloading, parsing and rendering custom font, the text on the HUD is not visible for couple seconds:

Need to do better job with custom font loading or get rid of it entirely.

[davidkpiano]

Downloading from where? It should be locally served, no?

[legomushroom]

@davidkpiano yeah locally but from the web server, anyways the custom font rendered as the empty placeholder until browser finishes all the custom font work.

[davidkpiano]

cc. @chetsangnil I talked about this with him a while back (re. using system fonts instead of custom fonts)

[legomushroom]

I'd love to use a system font here.

[mike-kaufman]

@legomushroom -

1. I haven't observed this behavior on win/chrome. Can you add repro steps (i.e., what URL are you hitting to see this) & browser/os info?
2. How do you know the delay here is related to custom fonts?

[legomushroom]

1. I think the repro is:

• Launch express.test.app
• Goto Timeline, click on Http Services

2. This is the common problem with custom fonts, as you can see on the gif that everything besides text rendered ok, but the text is missed.