817220 - @font-face with src:local("monospace") fails on Linux

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

Attachment: test

My Ubuntu Linux has a font available named "monospace" (it's the value of font.name.monospace.x-western).  If I write

  @font-face {
    font-family: Something;
    src: local("monospace");
  }

it doesn't find the local font.

Should this work?  (This might not just be a Linux problem; just noticed it there.)

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Isn't this basically bug 769194?

Comment 2

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

I don't think so.  Bug 769194 is about local() not working on Android.  This bug is about local with the specific name "monospace" (and might well be all generic font names, like "sans-serif" etc.).

Comment 3

[John Daggett (:jtd)]

The generic font names are *font family* identifiers, not identifiers that uniquely identify single faces within a family, which is the criteria for use within local():

# The locally-installed <font-face-name> argument to local() is a
# format-specific string that uniquely identifies a single font
# face within a larger family. 

The name within font.name.monospace.x-western is a *family* name.  You'll need to figure out what the fullname is for that font (e.g. "monospace regular").