Javascript Font Picker

An open source, free (as in beer), versatile, flexible and lightweight Javascript Font Picker Component for System fonts, Google fonts and custom (woff/ttf) fonts. Features dynamic font loading, favourites, keyboard navigation, fuzzy search, advanced metrics filters, property sorting and much more. Available in multiple languages.

Please visit jsfontpicker.com for more detailed documentation and extensive demo's.

Table of Contents

• Javascript Font Picker
  • Table of Contents
  • Features
  • Live Demo
  • Screenshots
  • Installation
    • IIFE Bundle
    • ESM Bundle
  • Getting started
    • Create
    • Configure
    • Interact
  • Documentation
  • Developing

Features

• ❤️ Favourites
• ⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts
• ⚡ Dynamic font loading
• 🔤 Custom font support
• 🔎 Fuzzy search
• 📐 Advanced metrics filters
• 📶 Property sorting
• 🇳🇱 Translations for English, Dutch, German, Spanish and French
• 💪 No JQuery, just pure ES6

Live Demo

👆 Try it out now!

Screenshots

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Dialog

Installation

The FontPicker requires a small stylesheet. Please include the it like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="fontpicker.css" />

It is also highly recommended to include a preconnect to Google fonts:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" />
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin="anonymous" />

Now, depending on your environment, choose one of the following:

• IIFE Bundle → When using vanilla JavaScript, without ES modules
• ESM Bundle → When using ES modules or a bundler

IIFE Bundle

Please import the IIFE script using a script tag in your HTML:

<script src="fontpicker.iife.js"></script>

This exposes FontPicker and FontPicker.FontLoader globally (on window).

ESM Bundle

Please import the ESM bundle using the import directive in your script:

import FontPicker from 'fontpicker.js'

This allows you to use FontPicker and FontPicker.FontLoader directly.

Getting started

Create

To create a font picker, first create a button or input element:

<button id="picker"></button>

Next instantiate the FontPicker, passing the element and an (optional) configuration:

const picker = new FontPicker('#picker', {
  language: 'en',
  font: 'Open Sans',
  defaultSubset: 'latin',
})

Configure

The picker's configuration can be changed after initialization. This is done by calling .configure({...}) on the element:

picker.configure({
  language: 'nl',
})

Interact

The picker's various methods and properties can also be accessed directly on the element:

// Set the current font
picker.setFont('Roboto:800')

// Handle events
picker.on('pick', (font) => { ... })

// Open the FontPicker, which returns a promise!
const font = await picker.open()

Documentation

For all methods and properties, please view the documentation.

Developing

To install dependencies:

bun|deno|npm|pnpm|yarn install

To run:

bun|deno|npm|pnpm|yarn run dev

License

This component is released under the MIT license. It is simple and easy to understand and places almost no restrictions on what you can do with the code. More Information

The development of this component was funded by Zygomatic.