This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The delete() method of the FontFaceSet interface removes a font from the set.
Font faces that were added to the set using the CSS @font-face rule remain connected to the corresponding CSS, and cannot be deleted.
delete(font)
A boolean value which is true if the deletion was successful, and false otherwise.
In the following example a new FontFace object is created and then deleted from the FontFaceSet.
const font = new FontFace("MyFont", 'url("myFont.woff2")');
document.fonts.delete(font);
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
delete |
35 | 79 | 41 | 22 | 10 | 35 | 41 | 22 | 10 | 3.0 | 37 | 10 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FontFaceSet/delete