Typography is usually one of the more faithfully-preserved aspects of a Framer export, but "usually" isn't "always" — here's where subtle drift actually happens and how to catch it.
What typically survives cleanly
Font family, size, weight, and basic styling (italic, letter-spacing, text-transform) map directly to CSS properties that carry through a well-implemented export without any translation loss — these are just values, copied faithfully.
Where drift actually happens
Font loading timing. If a font isn't self-hosted correctly (see our dedicated post on Framer fonts after export), the browser may render a fallback system font briefly before the real font loads — a "flash of unstyled text" that wasn't present on the original Framer-hosted site if Framer's font loading was better optimized for that specific case.
Variable font axis values. If the original design used a variable font at a specific, fine-tuned weight or width setting (not just a standard preset like "bold"), make sure the exported CSS preserves the exact axis values rather than rounding to the nearest standard weight — this is an easy detail to lose if an export process normalizes font-weight values.
Line-height and letter-spacing on responsive variants. Since Framer often bakes multiple breakpoint variants into the page (see our post on breakpoints after export), each variant may have its own fine-tuned typographic values — a subtle export bug here shows up as text that's technically the right font and size, but feels slightly "off" at specific viewport widths, which is a harder issue to spot than an outright broken layout.
How to actually check
Side-by-side comparison is the most reliable method here, since typographic drift is often too subtle to notice without a direct reference: open your original Framer-hosted site and your exported version in adjacent browser tabs/windows at the same viewport width, and compare key text blocks directly — headings, body copy, any text with specific letter-spacing or tight line-height. Font-rendering differences that are individually subtle are much easier to spot side-by-side than from memory.
The one thing worth explicitly testing
Any text using a genuinely custom or licensed font (not a common Google Font) is worth double-checking specifically — these are more likely to hit an export edge case than the handful of extremely common fonts every export tool has been tested against repeatedly.