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WOFF2 is pretty cool. I recently ported the C++ woff2 library ( https://github.com/google/woff2 - as used by Chrome, Firefox) to Rust ( https://github.com/nicoburns/wuff ), and it turn out WOFF2 has a bunch of custom font-specific…
comment by nicoburns · 2026-07-28 · in WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web -
…From memory, what I would do is simply download the original ttfs or otfs, run them through woff2 ( https://github.com/google/woff2 ), and then write the @font-face declarations for each weight/style variation. Variable fonts make this…
comment by trnglina · 2025-09-15 · in How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts -
Or you use Google's own TTF <-> WOFF2 converter tools: https://github.com/google/woff2 [0] I have very recent -- like, 2 weeks ago -- successful experience of using these, since I wanted to distribute a WOFF2 as part of a browser…
comment by darrenf · 2025-09-15 · in How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts -
…A more in-depth research effort into the solution space also turned up things like FontForge and github.com/google/woff2, neither of which showed up in the GitHub results, but depending on your use-case are likely to have been compelling…
comment by ddevault · 2021-01-18 · in GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy -
…few things that helped me a lot: - sfnt2woff/woff2sfnt for classic woff - Google's woff2 programs ( https://github.com/google/woff2 ) for woff2 - fontforge for tweaks and fixes ( http://designwithfontforge.com )
comment by jstewartmobile · 2016-12-22 · in Took me 5 years to do this font