WOFF 2.0 – Learn more about the next generation Web Font Format and convert TTF to WOFF2

ttf2woff2.md

Prolog

Google Chrome Developers says:

The new WOFF 2.0 Web Font compression format offers a 30% average gain over WOFF 1.0 (up to 50%+ in some cases). WOFF 2.0 is available since Chrome 36 and Opera 23.

Some examples of file size differences: WOFF vs. WOFF2

TTF to WOFF2 converting

• http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator
• http://everythingfonts.com/ttf-to-woff2

Embed WOFF2 in CSS (with WOFF fallback)

@font-face {
	font-family: MyFont;
	src:
		url('myfont.woff2') format('woff2'),
		url('myfont.woff') format('woff');
}

Base64 Data-URI

Of course you can use WOFF2 as a Base64 encoded string:

@font-face {
	font-family: MyFont;
	src:
		url('data:font/woff2;base64,...') format('woff2'),
		url('data:font/woff;base64,...') format('woff');
}

Good to know

• Please no serverside GZIP compression for WOFF files, because WOFF already contains compressed data.
• Think about the correct mime type for WOFF 2.0 files (Google uses font/woff2. W3C recommends font/woff2 too):

NGINX: WOFF2 mime type

types {
    font/woff2  woff2;
}

APACHE: WOFF2 mime type

AddType  font/woff2  .woff2

Browser Support

• Google Chrome 36
• Opera 23
• Firefox 39
• Opera 23
• Edge 14
• Safari 12

Helpful links

• Can I use WOFF2
• W3C: WOFF File Format 2.0
• A better web font compression format: WOFF 2.0
• Progress on smaller and more colorful fonts
• How to test WOFF 2.0
• WOFF 2.0 Compression on Google Fonts

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Sergej Müller

What's missing from this gist is a feature test. We are using this one to detect WOFF2 supports https://github.com/filamentgroup/woff2-feature-test/blob/master/woff2.js

And serve WOFF or WOFF2 base64 encoded in a JSON file depending on the outcome. Basically like how The Guardian does it. This was an early prototype mimicking that behavior (without WOFF2 detection) http://codepen.io/CrocoDillon/pen/dkcbs , enjoy! :)

In case anyone else has tried to retrieve the google hosted .woff2 in latin subset only, it will show all subsets(for some reason). To avoid that, it's possible to include the full range of characters in the url:

http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans&text=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!%22#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@[]^_`{|}~
See http://codepen.io/iautomation/pen/gbPwxe for an example

You can also download the full google font package on my site[ http://iautomation.us ] in case anyone wants to quickly grab the files to host locally..

To add the MIME type on IIS use:

appcmd set config /section:staticContent /+"[fileExtension='.woff2',mimeType='application/font-woff2']"

You can also easily get woff2 files (and all other formats for any combined subset/charset) of any Google web font via my lil' service google-webfonts-helper.

Thanks for this great gist, I will embed it in a special FAQ on the front page of my service ASAP.

How come the woff2 mimetype has not been registered with the IANA?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27829408/why-isnt-woff2-in-the-mimetype-directory

use .ahtacess works for me

Can you add a warning here about Data-URI embedding multiple file formats? It’s not a recommended practice, it negates the page weight benefits offered by WOFF2 if you include both Data URIs in a single file.

@zachleat +1

Google uses font/woff2

Could you please point to a specific example of this?

Edit: To answer my own question: http://www.google.com/fonts/
And here's hoping they rectify that: https://twitter.com/cvrebert/status/570155277648924672

http://onlinefontconverter.com has a online & a command tool to convert any font to woff2. You don't need to install any program. font-packs also works (you get one woff2 file for every font

Does it work in SVG?

As someone who uses the Data-URI method, is there an option for loading the correct type from the server? As @zachleat said, it makes no sense to embed both in a single file.

You can also add FF 39 stable to the list, it is enabled by default now, which is great.

W3C now recommends font/woff and font/woff2 for WOFF and WOFF2. See
http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF2/spec/#IMT

Hi guys. Made a NodeJS wrapper for the Google lib, thought you could be interested in adding it to this document: https://github.com/nfroidure/ttf2woff2

Is there a way to convert WOFF 2.0 to WOFF 1.0?

@meanjim woff2-to-otf then otf-to-woff.

Safari 10 should have support for it too.

@jungshik is right. The W3C now recommend using font/woff2 as the MIME type: https://www.w3.org/TR/WOFF2/#IMT

@anthony-geoghegan how can one figure out whether apache is using the W3C/IANA mime type (font/woff2) or the previous mime type (application/font-woff2)?

@lazylester do a curl -I http://url/font.woff2 and check the Content Type header

@eladkarako Why you do not make an .7z for win32 as this one: https://github.com/aj-ash/woff2/releases ?

how to view woff2 in windows 11?