diff --git a/examples/with-vuetify/css/app.styl b/examples/with-vuetify/css/app.styl
index 0b24ada921..cd1c8f9dc8 100644
--- a/examples/with-vuetify/css/app.styl
+++ b/examples/with-vuetify/css/app.styl
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+@require './vendor/material-icons.styl'
 @require './vendor/vuetify.styl'
diff --git a/examples/with-vuetify/css/vendor/material-icons.styl b/examples/with-vuetify/css/vendor/material-icons.styl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a063664368
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/with-vuetify/css/vendor/material-icons.styl
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+@font-face {
+  font-family: 'Material Icons';
+  font-style: normal;
+  font-weight: 400;
+  src: local('Material Icons'), local('MaterialIcons-Regular'), url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/materialicons/v22/2fcrYFNaTjcS6g4U3t-Y5UEw0lE80llgEseQY3FEmqw.woff2) format('woff2');
+}
+.material-icons {
+  font-family: 'Material Icons';
+  font-weight: normal;
+  font-style: normal;
+  font-size: 24px;
+  line-height: 1;
+  letter-spacing: normal;
+  text-transform: none;
+  display: inline-block;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  word-wrap: normal;
+  direction: ltr;
+  -webkit-font-feature-settings: 'liga';
+  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
+}
diff --git a/examples/with-vuetify/nuxt.config.js b/examples/with-vuetify/nuxt.config.js
index 9edc6811ef..a01ebf437d 100644
--- a/examples/with-vuetify/nuxt.config.js
+++ b/examples/with-vuetify/nuxt.config.js
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ module.exports = {
   ],
   head: {
     link: [
-      { rel: 'stylesheet', href: 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto' },
-      { rel: 'stylesheet', href: 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons' }
+      { rel: 'preload', as: 'style', href: 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto' }
     ]
   }
 }