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June 6, 2016 11:00 am GMT
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More Compact Web Fonts With WOFF 2.0
While multiple file formats had to be provided during the early days of web fonts, nowadays, the WOFF format has become the standard and is supported by all modern browsers. Older formats like the EOT format are only needed when you want to support Internet Explorer before version 9. After the WOFF format became the official standard in 2012, there’s lately been an upgrade called WOFF 2.0, which comes with improved compression, and thus creates smaller files. Files Up to 50 Percent Smaller “Brotli” is the name of the new compression standard used in WOFF 2.0. It replaces the LZMA compression which was used before. The “Brotli” algorithm was developed by Google and promises a file reduction of up to 50 percent in comparison to WOFF 1.0. In practice, this value probably won’t be achieved. However, cuts of up to 30 percent are realistic. The font provider MyFonts, which has tons of web fonts in store, states that their fonts have an average size reduction of 30 percent in comparison to WOFF 1.0. The “Proxima Nova Bold” is named as an example. In the WOFF 1.0 format, it had a file size of 60 kilobytes. In the new WOFF 2.0 […]Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Noupe/~3/YZRBz1KehIw/compact-webfonts-woff-2-0-97916.html
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