font-family

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The font-family attribute indicates which font family will be used to render the text, specified as a prioritized list of font family names and/or generic family names.

Note: As a presentation attribute, font-family can be used as a CSS property. See the CSS font-family property for more information.

You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:

Example

html
<svg viewBox="0 0 200 30" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <text y="20" font-family="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sans serif</text>
  <text x="100" y="20" font-family="monospace">Monospace</text>
</svg>

Usage notes

Value See font-family
Default value Depends on user agent
Animatable Yes

For a description of the values, please refer to the CSS font-family property.

Specifications

Specification
CSS Fonts Module Level 4
# generic-font-families
CSS Fonts Module Level 4
# font-family-prop

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
font-family

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Full support
Full support

See also