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Flash of Unstyled Content and Flash of Invisible Text.

* FOUC: when you see content in the wrong font, then it switches to the correct font, sometimes leading to page layout jumps.

* FOIT: when you see _no_ text content because the desired font is missing with no fallbacks/the CSS directed not to use fallbacks. Once the font loads, page layout might jump.



Here the definition is actually broader than FOUC just for the font part. It can cause rendering without any CSS




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