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A “flash of unstyled text” is the phenomenon in which a web page loads with the type set using system fonts before switching to the intended typeface(s). This delay is caused by the web fonts being downloaded to the user’s device.

![Two abstract representations of FOUT on a mobile phone: On the left, the content is rendered in system fonts. On the right, the content is rendered in web fonts.](images/thumbnail.svg)

The effect can be prevented using the CSS font-display property but is not recommended because it hides the content, resulting in FOIT.