# kirupa.com - Detect Whether a Font is Installed
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-detect-whether-a-font-is-installed/399543
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [December 2, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-detect-whether-a-font-is-installed/399543 "2014-12-02T05:04:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-detect-whether-a-font-is-installed/399543/1 "2014-12-02T05:04:06Z")
by [kirupa](http://www.kirupa.com/me/index.htm) | 1 September 2012
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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [http://www.kirupa.com/html5/detect\_whether\_font\_is\_installed.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/html5/detect_whether_font_is_installed.htm)
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### Author:  [@abergquist](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/abergquist)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-detect-whether-a-font-is-installed/399543/2 "2017-08-14T20:14:38Z")
Hi Kirupa,
I enjoyed your “Detect Whether a Font is Installed” article (and appreciate the fact that you mentioned that some other fonts could be the same size [since I thought about it while reading your article]).
Just wanted to mention that the following code at the bottom of the **doesFontExist()** function:
```
if (newSize == baselineSize) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
```
can be simplified to:
`return (newSize != baselineSize);`
Art Bergquist
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-detect-whether-a-font-is-installed/399543/3 "2017-08-17T03:35:53Z")
Thanks for pointing that out, Art. This is one of those things that I deliberately expand to call out the two return values to be more beginner-friendly. This isn’t the first time it’s been brought up. I think @krilnon and @senocular have mentioned this in the past. I’ll go ahead and start simplifying it down to how you suggest shortly.
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-detect-whether-a-font-is-installed/399543/5 "2017-09-30T03:33:08Z")
Good catch! @kirupa you should consider fixing this.
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-detect-whether-a-font-is-installed/399543/6 "2017-10-01T15:44:55Z")
Agreed! Fixing that in a few moments 🙂 Thanks @Wouldthat\_Wouldthat!