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by yorwba 2660 days ago
> Javascript is unable to access information about actual glyphs rendered or other "font-internal" calculations.

Just render the text to a canvas and read out the pixel data to see the glyphs, a.k.a. canvas fingerprinting. I'm not sure whether getting clever with the font would reveal any information you can't get more easily, though.