Bug 195002

Summary: initial-letter disabled font-face for non-local fonts
Product: WebKit Reporter: Jan Slusarczyk <jan.slusarczyk>
Component: Layout and RenderingAssignee: fantasai <fantasai.bugs>
Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED    
Severity: Normal CC: alyx, bfulgham, changseok, ck, fantasai.bugs, kyle.bavender, lfloyd, mmaxfield, ntim, simon.fraser, webkit-bug-importer, zalan
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: Safari Technology Preview   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Jan Slusarczyk
Reported 2019-02-25 04:22:17 PST
I have stumbled upon a problem where setting initial-letter for a ::first-letter selector blocks font-face if the font is not installed locally (I think). Here's a case study: https://codepen.io/janslu/pen/VRZVxj It is forked from issue's 161070 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161070 codepen. It's hard to tell if it is the same issue, as on Safari 12 I can font-face to Courier or Arial for example, but I cannot select a font from Google Fonts imported in head.
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Repro (218.37 KB, application/zip)
2023-04-13 18:17 PDT, Myles C. Maxfield 		no flags
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Radar WebKit Bug Importer
Comment 1 2019-02-26 10:40:47 PST
<rdar://problem/48405667>
Myles C. Maxfield
Comment 2 2019-02-28 15:49:27 PST
It looks like the first letters are rendered with Times, instead of the requested font.
Myles C. Maxfield
Comment 3 2023-04-13 18:17:13 PDT
Created attachment 465902 [details] Repro
ChangSeok Oh
Comment 4 2023-04-27 16:28:48 PDT
Anyone working on this?
Karl Dubost
Comment 5 2023-09-04 01:58:47 PDT
*** Bug 261086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
alyx
Comment 6 2024-08-18 15:40:54 PDT
Has anyone found a workaround with either Javascript or CSS until this resolved?
Lee
Comment 7 2025-09-22 12:47:50 PDT
We want to use initial-letter but this is blocking. The unintentional font isn't acceptable to our design and @supports returns true so we are still floating ::first-letter for all browsers. Please consider prioritizing this issue
alan
Comment 8 2025-09-29 16:22:39 PDT
This has progressed at 287465@main.
Tim Nguyen (:ntim)
Comment 9 2025-09-29 16:37:29 PDT
(The fix is in 18.4, please let us know if this still reproduces after that)
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