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Typotheque now supports WOFF in Firefox 3.6 25 Jan 2010
Last week, the Mozilla Foundation released version 3.6 of Firefox. Besides a snappier performance, this version includes also significant improvement for typography. It supports new font format Web Open Font Format (WOFF). The WOFF font files are compressed, so the font files are smaller and download time faster. Secondly it is a web specific format, which it can't be installed on your desktop, and it includes information about licensing. Lastly, it is a new standard format (XML wrapper), fully documented, and free to use by anyone.
In October we endorsed this format, and now we built it into our web font service. From today we serve WOFF fonts to Firefox 3.6. If you already use our web font service, there is nothing you have to do, we send the right fonts to right browsers.
We are excited about the new developments that can help to improve typography on the web.
6 comments
Liam McGee, 26 Apr 2010
Oh, sorry, understood.
Peter Bilak, 26 Apr 2010
Liam you are right, this is what EOTFast is supposed to be doing. I was just trying to make a distinction between EOTFast and FontSquirrel.
Liam McGee, 26 Apr 2010
Hi Peter - I don't understand. I have EOTFast installed, and it is an executable file for converting TTF files to EOT files (with compression as part of the routine) *not* for compressing existing EOT files. Is your experience different?
Peter Bilak, 26 Apr 2010
Hi Liam, just a little clarification: EOTfast is a method of compression of an existing font format (Microsoft EOT). Font Squirrel is a service that converts original fonts to other formats that browsers unfortunately require right now. Font Squirrel or Typotheque could potentially use EOTfast to make the files smaller. And finally, WOFF is a font format that is trying to make other font formats obsolete. Recently we heard that Opera, Mozilla and Microsoft support WOFF, which means that a need to convert fonts to other formats (e.g. service that Font Squirrel does) would be greatly reduced.
Liam McGee, 26 Apr 2010
Hi - great news about WOFF support. As an addendum to the EOTFast comment, Font Squirrel is achieving better results for me simply because it allows for easy subsetting - something that EOTFast does not do. So roll on version 2..
Richard Fink, 22 Feb 2010
Glad to hear you are delivering WOFF files to FF 3.6. The quicker the page load, the better the experience.
I'd like to take the opportunity to let you know about another and similar resource: EOTFAST. The site is up and the product available for download: EOTFAST
EOTFAST is a utility for creating natively compressed EOT files for use with any domain. There are no root string restrictions, as with Microsoft WEFT. And as is the case with WOFF.
Utilities like Microsoft WEFT, ttf2eot, the Font Squirrel EOT generator, and Ascender's tool for EOT "Lite" are now obsolete.
Savings in file size typically range from 45% to 70%.
For example, a first-rate screen font like Droid Serif starts out at 169kb as a TTF with the full character set but as an EOTFAST file it weighs in at only 80kb. With still the full character set. Compression is lossless.
Please stop by the site to check it out. Further announcements will appear in various forums in the coming days.
The documentation contains very useful information for font designers looking to prepare their fonts for use on the web.
The download package also contains a HTML "EOT File Integrity Test" page and a helpful "fallback" test font.
EOTFAST is a must for anyone looking to use @font-face web fonts today or for years to come - for as long as Internet Explorer has a substantial user-base.
Version 2.0 is already in work. I'm using a Beta of it right now. And as soon as certain technical issues are scoped out, conversion from TTF to EOT using EOTFAST will probably appear as an online service, as well.
With EOTFAST, WOFF now has a full partner and it works to deliver web fonts to half a billion IE users today - not in the future.
Thanks. Sorry for the long post.
Save some bandwidth and get it!
I'd like to take the opportunity to let you know about another and similar resource: EOTFAST. The site is up and the product available for download: EOTFAST
EOTFAST is a utility for creating natively compressed EOT files for use with any domain. There are no root string restrictions, as with Microsoft WEFT. And as is the case with WOFF.
Utilities like Microsoft WEFT, ttf2eot, the Font Squirrel EOT generator, and Ascender's tool for EOT "Lite" are now obsolete.
Savings in file size typically range from 45% to 70%.
For example, a first-rate screen font like Droid Serif starts out at 169kb as a TTF with the full character set but as an EOTFAST file it weighs in at only 80kb. With still the full character set. Compression is lossless.
Please stop by the site to check it out. Further announcements will appear in various forums in the coming days.
The documentation contains very useful information for font designers looking to prepare their fonts for use on the web.
The download package also contains a HTML "EOT File Integrity Test" page and a helpful "fallback" test font.
EOTFAST is a must for anyone looking to use @font-face web fonts today or for years to come - for as long as Internet Explorer has a substantial user-base.
Version 2.0 is already in work. I'm using a Beta of it right now. And as soon as certain technical issues are scoped out, conversion from TTF to EOT using EOTFAST will probably appear as an online service, as well.
With EOTFAST, WOFF now has a full partner and it works to deliver web fonts to half a billion IE users today - not in the future.
Thanks. Sorry for the long post.
Save some bandwidth and get it!
