Add MS Office font sets

[AmeliaBR]

Incluing the fonts installed by MS Office (and maybe other common software?) would be very useful:

• The fonts loaded & installed by MS Office contribute a large component of the "system fonts" for many Windows users, particularly for Latin script. Compare Office 2010 fonts with Windows 8 system fonts.
• MS Office is quite common on Windows systems, so many (if not most) Windows users will have these fonts.
• Many users, including designers, might not realize that they aren't part of the core operating system. We didn't install the font, so we just assume it came with the OS. Then we can't figure out why it isn't listed on your site (e.g., issue #43 on Gill Sans MT), and we don't realize that some users on the same OS won't have it.

Since the font list is available from the same Microsoft site you're already scraping (https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/), I hope that getting the data wouldn't be too much extra work.

Displaying it, however, is a little more complicated. The current streamlined display assumes, fairly enough, that every user is on one and only one operating system. Add in fonts loaded by software, and it gets messy. You'd need some sort of nested list structure to factor in the different OS + software combinations.

PS. Glad you're working on this service & keeping it up to date! Most references on web-safe CSS font stacks are starting to get dated...

[zachleat]

oh, good idea! I agree on all 3 bullet points there.

Just speaking logistically getting the font lists probably won’t be difficult but I use Browserstack for these font support tests so it will be a little tricky to get access to a stock Windows machine with Office installed.

For display purposes I imagine I’d add another support level, a la:

Maybe something like “Installed with…”

Anyway a hearty 👍 from me