CSSFontPaletteValuesRule: basePalette property

The read-only basePalette property of the CSSFontPaletteValuesRule interface indicates the base palette associated with the rule.

Value

A string that can be one of the following color values:

• light
  • : Matches the first palette in the font file that is marked as applicable to a light background, that is, close to white. If there is no palette in the font or if no palette has the required metadata, the value is equivalent to "0", that is, the first palette in the font.
• dark
  • : Matches the first palette in the font file that is marked as applicable to a dark background, that is, close to black. If there is no palette in the font or if no palette has the required metadata, the value is equivalent to "0", that is, the first palette in the font.
• a string containing an index (like "0", "1", …)
  • : Matches the palette corresponding to the index. The first palette corresponds to "0".

Examples

Read the associated base palette

The MDN live sample infrastructure combines all the CSS blocks in the example into a single inline style with the id css-output, so we first use getElementById() to find that sheet. rules[2] returns the first CSSFontPaletteValuesRule object, and rules[3] the second one.

HTML

<h2>default base-palette</h2>
<h2 class="two">base-palette at index 2</h2>
<h2 class="five">base-palette at index 5</h2>
<pre id="log"></pre>

CSS

@import "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Nabla&display=swap";

h2 {
  font-family: "Nabla", fantasy;
}

@font-palette-values --two {
  font-family: "Nabla";
  base-palette: 2;
}

@font-palette-values --five {
  font-family: "Nabla";
  base-palette: 5;
}

.two {
  font-palette: --two;
}

.five {
  font-palette: --five;
}

JavaScript

const log = document.getElementById("log");

const rules = document.getElementById("css-output").sheet.cssRules;
const twoRule = rules[2]; // A CSSFontPaletteValuesRule interface
const fiveRule = rules[3]; // A CSSFontPaletteValuesRule interface

log.textContent = `The ${twoRule.name} @font-palette-values base palette is: ${twoRule.basePalette}\n`;
log.textContent += `The ${fiveRule.name} @font-palette-values base palette is: ${fiveRule.basePalette}`;

Result

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• @font-palette-values at-rule
• base-palette descriptor