FontData: family property
Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The family
read-only property of the FontData
interface returns the family of the font face.
This is the name used when referring to the font family from code, for example, in the font-family
property or in places within the @font-face
at-rule such as the local()
function.
Examples include:
- Apple SD Gothic Neo
- Arial Black
- Avenir Next
- Katari
- YuMincho +36p Kana
Value
A string.
Examples
The following snippet will query for all available fonts, and log metadata. This could be used, for example, to populate a font-picker control.
js
async function logFontData() {
try {
const availableFonts = await window.queryLocalFonts();
for (const fontData of availableFonts) {
console.log(fontData.postscriptName);
console.log(fontData.fullName);
console.log(fontData.family);
console.log(fontData.style);
}
} catch (err) {
console.error(err.name, err.message);
}
}
Specifications
Specification |
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Local Font Access # ref-for-dom-fontdata-family |
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser