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# Font Face Observer [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/bramstein/fontfaceobserver.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/bramstein/fontfaceobserver)
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Font Face Observer is a small `@font-face` loader and monitor (3.5KB minified and 1.3KB gzipped) compatible with any webfont service. It will monitor when a webfont is loaded and notify you. It does not limit you in any way in where, when, or how you load your webfonts. Unlike the [Web Font Loader](https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader) Font Face Observer uses scroll events to detect font loads efficiently and with minimum overhead.
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## How to use
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Include your `@font-face` rules as usual. Fonts can be supplied by either a font service such as [Google Fonts](http://www.google.com/fonts), [Typekit](http://typekit.com), and [Webtype](http://webtype.com) or be self-hosted. You can set up monitoring for a single font family at a time:
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```js
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var font = new FontFaceObserver('My Family', {
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weight: 400
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});
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font.load().then(function () {
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console.log('Font is available');
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}, function () {
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console.log('Font is not available');
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});
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```
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The `FontFaceObserver` constructor takes two arguments: the font-family name (required) and an object describing the variation (optional). The object can contain `weight`, `style`, and `stretch` properties. If a property is not present it will default to `normal`. To start loading the font, call the `load` method. It'll immediately return a new Promise that resolves when the font is loaded and rejected when the font fails to load.
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If your font doesn't contain at least the latin "BESbwy" characters you must pass a custom test string to the `load` method.
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```js
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var font = new FontFaceObserver('My Family');
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font.load('中国').then(function () {
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console.log('Font is available');
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}, function () {
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console.log('Font is not available');
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});
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```
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The default timeout for giving up on font loading is 3 seconds. You can increase or decrease this by passing a number of milliseconds as the second parameter to the `load` method.
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```js
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var font = new FontFaceObserver('My Family');
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font.load(null, 5000).then(function () {
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console.log('Font is available');
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}, function () {
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console.log('Font is not available after waiting 5 seconds');
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});
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```
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Multiple fonts can be loaded by creating a `FontFaceObserver` instance for each.
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```js
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var fontA = new FontFaceObserver('Family A');
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var fontB = new FontFaceObserver('Family B');
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fontA.load().then(function () {
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console.log('Family A is available');
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});
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fontB.load().then(function () {
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console.log('Family B is available');
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});
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```
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You may also load both at the same time, rather than loading each individually.
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```js
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var fontA = new FontFaceObserver('Family A');
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var fontB = new FontFaceObserver('Family B');
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Promise.all([fontA.load(), fontB.load()]).then(function () {
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console.log('Family A & B have loaded');
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});
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```
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If you are working with a large number of fonts, you may decide to create `FontFaceObserver` instances dynamically:
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```js
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// An example collection of font data with additional metadata,
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// in this case “color.”
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var exampleFontData = {
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'Family A': { weight: 400, color: 'red' },
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'Family B': { weight: 400, color: 'orange' },
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'Family C': { weight: 900, color: 'yellow' },
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// Etc.
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};
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var observers = [];
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// Make one observer for each font,
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// by iterating over the data we already have
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Object.keys(exampleFontData).forEach(function(family) {
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var data = exampleFontData[family];
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var obs = new FontFaceObserver(family, data);
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observers.push(obs.load());
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});
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Promise.all(observers)
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.then(function(fonts) {
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fonts.forEach(function(font) {
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console.log(font.family + ' ' + font.weight + ' ' + 'loaded');
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// Map the result of the Promise back to our existing data,
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// to get the other properties we need.
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console.log(exampleFontData[font.family].color);
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});
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})
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.catch(function(err) {
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console.warn('Some critical font are not available:', err);
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});
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```
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The following example emulates FOUT with Font Face Observer for `My Family`.
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```js
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var font = new FontFaceObserver('My Family');
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font.load().then(function () {
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document.documentElement.className += " fonts-loaded";
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});
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```
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```css
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.fonts-loaded {
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body {
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font-family: My Family, sans-serif;
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}
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}
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```
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## Installation
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If you're using npm you can install Font Face Observer as a dependency:
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```shell
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$ npm install fontfaceobserver
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```
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You can then require `fontfaceobserver` as a CommonJS (Browserify) module:
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```js
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var FontFaceObserver = require('fontfaceobserver');
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var font = new FontFaceObserver('My Family');
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font.load().then(function () {
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console.log('My Family has loaded');
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});
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```
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If you're not using npm, grab `fontfaceobserver.js` or `fontfaceobserver.standalone.js` (see below) and include it in your project. It'll export a global `FontFaceObserver` that you can use to create new instances.
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Font Face Observer uses Promises in its API, so for [browsers that do not support promises](http://caniuse.com/#search=promise) you'll need to include a polyfill. If you use your own Promise polyfill you just need to include `fontfaceobserver.standalone.js` in your project. If you do not have an existing Promise polyfill you should use `fontfaceobserver.js` which includes a small Promise polyfill. Using the Promise polyfill adds roughly 1.4KB (500 bytes gzipped) to the file size.
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## Browser support
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FontFaceObserver has been tested and works on the following browsers:
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* Chrome (desktop & Android)
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* Firefox
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* Opera
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* Safari (desktop & iOS)
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* IE8+
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* Android WebKit
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## License
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Font Face Observer is licensed under the BSD License. Copyright 2014-2017 Bram Stein. All rights reserved.
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