Frontend & browser·Rendering and the browser pipeline
the page appears for a fraction of a second as raw serif text before the styles land.
Flash of unstyled content
Also calledFOUC
Content painting before its stylesheet has been applied, usually because the CSS was loaded asynchronously or injected by script. It looks like a broken page even though nothing is broken, and it is worse on a slow connection where the unstyled state persists long enough to read. The related font versions — invisible text while a webfont loads, or a visible swap once it arrives — come from the same cause and are controlled with `font-display`.