Congrats to editors Vladimir Levantovsky @raphlinus for releasing WOFF2.0 as the 401st #WebStandard #timetoadopt!
Chris Lilley @svgeesus@mastodon.social @svgeesus
1 Mar 2018
WOFF 2.0 is now a W3C Recommendation! Congratulations to all who helped make this happen! w3.org/TR/2018/REC-WOFF2-201… I blogged about it w3.org/blog/2018/03/woff-2-0… #webfonts

Mar 1, 2018 · 10:19 AM UTC

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... Introduced in 2009, the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) was a milestone that marked the beginning of the #webfonts era. The idea was to specify a simple compressed file format for fonts, designed primarily for use on the #Web.
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... WOFF1.0 was released in Dec. 2012 and has been widely deployed since. To better lower the use of network bandwidth, while still allowing fast decompression (even on mobile devices!), the @w3c WebFonts #WorkingGroup worked on WOFF2.0
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... WOFF 2.0 significantly improves font compression. It offers 30% average gain over WOFF 1.0, with peaks above 50% in some cases!!
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... WOFF 2.0 is widely used on production #websites. It supports the entirety of the #TrueType and #OpenType specifications, including Variable fonts, Chromatic fonts, and font Collections. Read the doc. for more details: w3.org/TR/2018/REC-WOFF2-201…
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... All modern Web browsers now support the WOFF 2.0 format for downloadable fonts caniuse.com/#feat=woff2
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