Font Changes on Initial Page Load

  • Resolved michellemarin

    (@michellemarin)


    1 year ago

    Hi Minimal Coming Soon Support Team,

    I had a quick question about the plugin settings. I have Montserrat font selected in the “Design” page section of the Coming Soon Plugin.

    When I initially load the page it shows the correct font. Then after a couple seconds it switches to “Times New Roman” (or something similar). Then after another second it switches back again to the selected font “Montserrrat”. I’ve also set body tag and p tags to Montserrat in custom css (advanced page). After setting custom CSS and font settings, it’s still changing to “Times New Roman” every time the page initially loads on a clear cache or incognito window. Is there a workaround to ensure the page loads the selected font and doesn’t switch? 

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    loom video of font changing on initial page load: https://www.loom.com/share/dfe31066ad68445fbe94eb08ecd33052?sid=b585c319-6613-4201-935a-99a084713b6c

    Thank you so much in advance!

    Custom CSS:

    .secondary-text {
    margin: 0 auto !important;
    width: 100%;
    font-family: “Montserrat” !important;
    }
    body {
    font-family: “Montserrat” !important;
    }

    .content p {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    font-family: “Montserrat”;
    }

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    Plugin Author Alexandru Tapuleasa

    (@talextech)

    Hi,

    When the page is first loaded the default system font is used until the custom font is loaded. Since the font files are tiny, normally you wouldn’t get to see the change as it happens almost instantly. But if you have a slow 3G connection there could be that 1-2 second delay ??

    Thread Starter michellemarin

    (@michellemarin)

    Hi Alexandru,

    Thank you for your reply. Good idea on checking the internet speed. I ran a test and it looks like my internet connection is loading quickly and stable.

    Actually, what I’m seeing is that the default font is not shown on initial load. It shows the selected font Montserrat on initial load. Then it switches to Times New Roman after a second or two. Then it switches back again to Montserrat.

    Is this something that is going to happen regardless of the wifi speed and on all websites using the Coming Soon plugin enabled? Just wanted to make sure if there was a fix I was incorporating that so it doesn’t change fonts, if it’s correctable. Thanks so much!

    Plugin Author Alexandru Tapuleasa

    (@talextech)

    Hi,

    That is the way it works ?? Alternatively we could hide the text until the font is loaded but most people prefer to have the text display first even with the system font. For most people it’s not even noticeable.

    In your case your upload/download speeds are good but for some reason ping is very slow (it takes 0.3 seconds for your browser and the website to send messages back and forth) so that might explain the delay ??

    Thread Starter michellemarin

    (@michellemarin)

    No worries, Alexandru. Just wanted to check if there was some setting/configuration that would change this by default. We can mark this thread closed. Thank you for getting back to me so quickly!

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