How to detect if a font is supported
Written by Stefan Judis
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Jim Nielsen shared how to detect Apple’s “New York” font face, and while reading the post, I realized that I'd forgotten about document. 🙈
The CSS Font Loading API enables you to access or load fonts via JavaScript. It's good stuff!
And if you want to test if a browser supports a font, the check method's your friend!
document.fonts.check('12px ui-serif');
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