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Web Font Optimization

1 post · Jan 2012 – Feb 2015

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The WebP image format has evolved to offer advanced features for web developers, focusing on image compression, quality, and transparency. Early efforts introduced WebP with its lossless and lossy compression capabilities. Subsequent developments have focused on enhancing transparency support, offering more control over alpha channels, and introducing new modes to optimize image delivery and visual fidelity on the web. This evolution aims to provide developers with more powerful tools for managing images on the web. This post introduces WOFF (Web Open Font Format) as a new compressed font format for the web, offering significant improvements in file size and loading times compared to existing formats like TrueType and OpenType.

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  1. Smaller Fonts with WOFF 2.0 and unicode-range- Google Developers BlogThis post introduces WOFF 2.0 as a new font format that offers significantly better compression than WOFF, leading to smaller font files and faster loading times. It also details the use of the unicode-range CSS descriptor to subset fonts, allowing developers to include only the characters needed for a specific language or character set, further reducing file size and improving performance.
  2. Web Fonts, now more compressed- Google Developers BlogIntroduces WOFF (Web Open Font Format) as a new compressed font format for the web, offering significant improvements in file size and loading times compared to existing formats like TrueType and OpenType. WOFF is designed to be a web-optimized format that retains the features of existing font formats while reducing file size through compression.