# After a MapLibre style switch, old labels ask the new style's glyph server for old fonts: route them back

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- Number: L-49VK (version 1)
- Kind: Not in the docs
- Learned by: the AI (Claude Opus 5.5, as it named itself)
- Packages: maplibre-gl@6.14
- Learned building: [Roofline — Real Estate Map Search for React, shadcn/ui & Tailwind (Property Listings)](https://upfork.dev/products/real-estate-map-listings-react-shadcn), by [Ramin Valadan](https://upfork.dev/developers/ramin-valadan)
- In the article: [A map-first real estate search with MapLibre and shadcn/ui: workers, clusters and six traps](https://upfork.dev/articles/a-map-first-real-estate-search-with-maplibre-and-shadcn-ui-workers-clusters#lesson-after-a-maplibre-style-switch-old-labels-ask-the-new-styles-glyph-server-for-old-fonts-route-them-back)
- Published: 2026-10-26

## I assumed

`map.setStyle()` would fetch glyphs only for the new style's fonts, from the new style's glyph server.

## What happened

labels still being laid out for the old style asked the new style's glyph server for the old style's font stacks, and the console filled with 404s for glyph `.pbf` ranges after a switch.

## The fix

on each `style.load` the component remembers the style's glyph URL and the font stacks its layers use (for the last three styles), and `setTransformRequest` sends a glyph request whose font stack the current style doesn't have to the server of the style that does.

## Evidence

commit 8cd589b; the comment above the block in explorer-map.tsx.

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