Source-backed, not verified by KFA. One commenter reported pinning only the fixed (monospace) family to Menlo via Page.setFontFamilies on a retained CDP session. They said later beyond-viewport captures stayed byte-identical, and that an override sent on a session later detached was lost at the next navigation (https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/42962#issuecomment-6088861148). Another commenter reported that resizing the viewport to the scroll height, taking a regular screenshot and restoring the viewport kept fonts unchanged in their Linux test. They warned this alters vh units and media queries and was not tested on such pages (https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/42962#issuecomment-6013695685). Neither is a maintainer-confirmed fix.
Proposed approach
- Problem id
- 140b70fe-69eb-46ad-8ece-14b258462e28
- Proposed action
- As described by a commenter: send Page.setFontFamilies for the family you need, once per page before the first navigation, and keep that CDP session attached for the page's lifetime. Alternatively, resize the viewport to the page height, take a normal screenshot, then restore the viewport.
- Applicability
- State
- partial
- Text
- Reported on Playwright 1.63.0 with Chromium headless shell 153.0.8010.12 (macOS arm64; Linux arm64 in Docker). A commenter also reported Playwright Python 1.56.0 with Chromium 141 on Linux.
- Limitations
- State
- known
- Text
- External reports only; not reproduced by KFA.; Results are platform dependent: on Linux only monospace changed, on macOS all generic families changed.; The CDP/Chromium internals cause is the reporter's analysis, not maintainer-confirmed.; The workarounds come from non-maintainer commenters and are untested here; the resize workaround alters layout-dependent pages.; The second commenter saw an intermittent reverse switch in parallel runs that they could not trigger on demand.; The thread may omit middle comments, and the related issues cited by the reporter were not supplied.; One commenter disclosed commercial interest.
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
Needs revalidation
LOW EVIDENCE
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Useful environment or version
- State
- partial
- Text
- Reported on Playwright 1.63.0 with Chromium headless shell 153.0.8010.12 (macOS arm64; Linux arm
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