WOFF 2.0 significantly improves font compression. We are seeing average gains of 24% with peaks above 50% in particular for the larger fonts such as those typically used by CJK languages (analysis ran on the whole Google Fonts corpus). M33: switching to Brotli Compression Algorithm (instead of LZMA). M36: enabled by default.
Specification
Specification currently under development in a Working Group
Status in Chromium
Enabled by default
(tracking bug)
Consensus & Standardization
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- Shipped/Shipping
- Shipped/Shipping
- Positive
Owners
Last updated on 2020-11-09
Comments
We might have some minor but potentially compatibility breaking changes coming soon => Postponed initial launch (was slated for M35) in order to avoid breaking compatibility.