FontData: family property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
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

Specification
Local Font Access
# ref-for-dom-fontdata-family

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also