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Zach Leatherman

Get all Font Sizes in use on a Web Page

January 10, 2019 First, it was a tweet.

While doing some testing on font hinting, I wanted an easy way to make a test page that had examples of every single font-size in use on a page. Pasting the following snippet into your DevTools console retrieves an Array of sorted font-size values in use on a page.

(function() {
  let fontSizes = new Set();

  document.querySelectorAll("*").forEach(function( node ) {
    fontSizes.add( window.getComputedStyle( node ).getPropertyValue("font-size") );
  });

  return Array.from( fontSizes ).sort(function(a, b) {
    return parseFloat(a) - parseFloat(b);
  });
})();

For example, this page returned:

["10.5px", "11px", "12px", "13px", "15px", "15.7368px", "16px", "16.9474px", "18.6875px", "19.2px", "21.7895px", "22.4px", "23px", "100.35px"]

⚠️ Careful if you use vw units, these are computed values only.

I’ve also filed this as a possible enhancement for GlyphHanger.

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Zach is a builder for the web at IndieWeb Avatar for https://cloudcannon.com/CloudCannon. He created IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.devEleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 69 talks in nine different countries at events like Jamstack Conf, Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS. Read more about Zach »

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