Font Enumeration

Houdini

Gives web applications the ability to enumerate local fonts and some metadata about each. Today, no API exists to provide a list of local fonts to web applications.

Font enumeration is a missing capability that has prevented modern web apps from making full use of the web platform. Web apps that want to work with local fonts require the user to upload them to a server first. In some cases, web apps ask users to install a separate local program that provides additional capabilities like font enumeration and offers local fonts as a WebFont in order to work around this missing API. The font enumeration API will let a web app get access to a list of local fonts and some metadata without requiring these workarounds.

Comments

An earlier version of this API was discussed here: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/G-hC66MRTso/uVrmHV0NAwAJ It has since been updated based on feedback from experts. This version of the API takes into account and reflects that feedback.

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Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

In development (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

Firefox: No public signals
Edge: No public signals
Safari: No public signals
Web Developers: Strongly positive

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Last updated on 2020-04-03