Typeface - what is swap fonts on pageload?

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Hi,

I am pretty sure it is mentioned somewhere, but I could not find it. What does:
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do?

I think it reduces page loading speeds a bit by using default fonts at the beginning and changing them after the self-hosted fonts have been loaded, but I am not 100% sure.

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Here’s an article on the topic of the font-display property in CSS:

The “Swap Fonts On Page Load” uses the swap value for the font-display property.

Here’s a separate article as well about Google Fonts adding this to their fonts as well:

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