# Stutter when showing Monarch screen containing a Distance Field font with a shadow

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**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [April 21, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/stutter-when-showing-monarch-screen-containing-a-distance-field-font-with-a-shadow/64934 "2020-04-21T16:26:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![totebo](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/totebo/32/36087_2.png) [@totebo](https://forum.defold.com/u/totebo)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/stutter-when-showing-monarch-screen-containing-a-distance-field-font-with-a-shadow/64934/7 "2020-04-21T22:23:44Z")

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That’s great. Then my plan to cache all glyphs during loading might work. Will try it out tomorrow.

Edit: Ok, I’ve managed to get it to work! There is a caveat, though: The collection with the cached fonts needs to always be visible/in memory. If it’s unloaded, the stutter starts happening again.

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