Browser font support

Question

Can JavaScript (or something else) tell me what fonts my browser supports out of the box, without loading external font files?

I would like to programmatically generate a list of the installed fonts on my Browser.

(In the Chrome dev tools, under the "Elements" pane, if one does Ctrl + Click inside a custom CSS property with empty value, it will tell you the list of acceptable values for that property. E.g., for the CSS property display it will tell you inline, inline-block, inline-table, etc. Unfortunately, the list for font-family doesn't contain the available fonts.)

This might help, however not sure if it is what you need: http://www.lalit.org/lab/javascript-css-font-detect/ — Uooo, Apr 26 '13 at 07:56
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3368837/list-every-font-a-users-browser-can-display duplicate? — Peter Rasmussen, Apr 27 '13 at 13:27

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 27 '13 at 13:33

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Using JavaScript, given a font name one can test if the corresponding font is installed. That's not good enough.

Using Flash, one can retrieve the full list of fonts. There is a nice demo here.

answered Apr 27 '13 at 13:33

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The Flash method does not work in IE 11, as you can see in that demo. – NoBugs Jan 21 '14 at 05:48

Browser font support

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