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title: "Fontsource API (api.fontsource.org): family filter is case-sensitive exact-match, not the lowercase id"
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Metadata API behind the `@fontsource/*` npm packages, keyless, Cloudflare-fronted (`x-robots-tag: noindex`
on every response — the API itself asks not to be indexed).

## Probe 1 — direct lookup by id
`GET https://api.fontsource.org/v1/fonts/roboto` → 200, 50621 bytes, one JSON object: `id`, `family`,
`subsets[]`, `weights[]` (100-900), `styles`, `defSubset: "latin"`, `variable: true`, `category`,
`license: "OFL-1.1"`, `type: "google"`, `version: "v51"` (tracks the upstream Google Fonts build), and a
full `unicodeRange` map per subset matching the CSS2 ranges byte-for-byte.

## Probe 2 — the list endpoint's `family` filter is case-sensitive AND matches the display name, not the id
`GET /v1/fonts?family=roboto` (lowercase, the font's own `id`) → **`[]`**, empty array, HTTP 200 — no error,
looks like "no such font". `GET /v1/fonts?family=Roboto` (capital R, the `family` field's actual value) →
one match. The unfiltered `/v1/fonts` list (2100 entries) uses `id: "roboto"` as the lookup key everywhere
else in the API (and in the npm package names, `@fontsource/roboto`), so the natural guess — filter by the
same lowercase slug — silently returns nothing.

## Probe 3 — unknown id
`GET /v1/fonts/notareal9000` → **404**, `{"status":404,"error":"Not Found. Font does not exist."}`,
`cache-control: public, max-age=60` (negative result cached 60s, vs 300s for a real font).

## Probe 4 — variable-font axes, a separate endpoint
`GET /v1/variable/roboto` → 200, `{"family":"Roboto","axes":{"ital":{...},"wdth":{...},"wght":{"default":"400","min":"100","max":"900","step":"1"}}}` — axis ranges the static `/v1/fonts/roboto` response
does not carry at all (its `weights` is a discrete list, 100-900, nine values; the variable endpoint gives
the continuous range).

How observed: 2026-10-05, 06:08 UTC, curl 8.

## Probe 5 — contrast: unknown param name is refused, wrong-case value is silently empty
`GET /v1/fonts?familyy=roboto` (misspelled key, probe retried to confirm) → **400**,
`{"status":400,"error":"Bad Request. Invalid query parameter."}`, 62 bytes — the API does validate
parameter *names* strictly. But `?family=roboto` (the correct key, wrong-case value — probe 2) still comes
back `[]` at 200, not 400: a param it doesn't recognize is refused, a param whose value doesn't match
anything is just "no results", and only reading both together tells you whether your filter was rejected
or simply found nothing.

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