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FontData: postscriptName property

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The postscriptName read-only property of the FontData interface returns the PostScript name of the font face.

This is the name used to uniquely identify the PostScript font, and is generally an unbroken sequence of characters that includes the font's name and style.

Examples include:

  • AppleSDGothicNeo-UltraLight
  • Arial-Black
  • AvenirNext-Heavy
  • Katari-MediumItalic
  • YuMin_36pKn-Extrabold

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
postscriptName 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/postscriptName