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FontData: family property

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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

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
family 103 103 No No No No No No No No No No

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FontData/family