This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The descentOverride property of the FontFace interface returns and sets the value of the descent-override descriptor. The possible values are normal, indicating that the metric used should be obtained from the font file, or a percentage.
A string.
let fontFace = new FontFace(
"Roboto",
'url("https://fonts.example.com/roboto.woff2")',
{ descentOverride: "90%" },
);
console.log(fontFace.descentOverride); // 90%
fontFace.descentOverride = "normal";
console.log(fontFace.descentOverride); // 'normal'
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
descentOverride |
87 | 87 | 89 | 73 | No | 87 | 89 | 62 | No | 14.0 | 87 | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FontFace/descentOverride