Permissions-Policy: local-fonts directive

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 HTTP Permissions-Policy header local-fonts directive controls whether the current document is allowed to gather data on the user's locally-installed fonts via the Window.queryLocalFonts() method.

Specifically, where a defined policy blocks use of this feature, Promises returned by Window.queryLocalFonts() will reject with a DOMException of type SecurityError.

Syntax

http
Permissions-Policy: local-fonts=<allowlist>;
<allowlist>

A list of origins for which permission is granted to use the feature. See Permissions-Policy > Syntax for more details.

Default policy

The default allowlist for local-fonts is self.

Specifications

Specification
Local Font Access API
# permissions-policy

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
local-fonts
Experimental
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 103 (Release date: 2022-06-21)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 103 (Release date: 2022-06-23)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – No support
Chrome Android
footnote
footnote See bug 40840834
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – No support
Opera Android
footnote
footnote See bug 40840834
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – No support
Samsung Internet
footnote
footnote See bug 40840834
WebView Android – No support
WebView Android
footnote
footnote See bug 40840834
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
See implementation notes.

See also