`base-palette` CSS at-rule descriptor

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It's been available across browsers since November 2022.

The base-palette CSS descriptor is used to specify the name or index of a pre-defined palette to be used for creating a new palette. If the specified base-palette does not exist, then the palette defined at index 0 will be used.

Syntax

@font-palette-values --one {
  base-palette: 1;
}

The base-palette descriptor is specified using a zero-based index of the font-maker created palettes.

Values

<index>: Specifies the index of the pre-defined palette to use.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

Examples

Changing the default palette in a font

Using the Rocher Color Font, this example shows two instances of switching the default palette in the font to an alternate palette created by the font-maker.

HTML

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

CSS

@font-face {
  font-family: "Rocher";
  src: url("[path-to-font]/RocherColorGX.woff2") format("woff2");
}

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

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

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

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

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

Result

Example showing 3 different base-palettes of Rocher color font

Specifications

Specification
CSS Fonts Module Level 4 # base-palette-desc

Browser compatibility

	Desktop					Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`base-palette`	101	101	107	87	15.4	101	107	70	15.4	19.0	101	15.4