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WOFF 2.0 (improved font compression)

Category
Miscellaneous
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 36)
Intent stage
None

Summary

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.

Standards & signals

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