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How to create a WOFF font from a True Type font (ttf)

October 29th, 2012

Jonathan Kew made a nice tool to create WOFF fonts very easy.

Just install/compile  it and run:

sfnt2woff font.ttf

As you can see the size of a WOFF file is similar in size to a compressed TTF file.

For example take the free Ubuntu-Regular font:

Size

  • TTF:  345 KB
  • WOFF: 165.8 KB
  • gzipped TTF: 169 KB

The downside of a WOFF is that you can’t install it locally, so you can’t speed up your favourite website by installing its beautiful fonts as a desktop font.

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