Download Sample WOFF2 Files (Web Fonts)

Download free sample WOFF2 files. This is the Gold Standard for Web Fonts. It uses the Brotli compression algorithm, offering 30% better compression than WOFF 1.0. Supported by all modern browsers. STANDARD Modern Web Typography File Name Style / Specs Size Action Inter_Web_Regular.woff2 UI Standard The most popular UI font (Inter). Optimized for screen readability….

Download free sample WOFF2 files. This is the Gold Standard for Web Fonts. It uses the Brotli compression algorithm, offering 30% better compression than WOFF 1.0. Supported by all modern browsers.

STANDARD
Modern Web Typography

File Name Style / Specs Size Action
Inter_Web_Regular.woff2
UI Standard		 The most popular UI font (Inter). Optimized for screen readability. Highly compressed for fast loading. 18 KB Download
Variable_Weight.woff2
Dynamic Weight		 Variable Font. Single file covering weights 100 to 900 using the wght axis. Replaces 9 separate static files. 45 KB Download
Icon_Set_Vector.woff2
Symbols		 Contains icons instead of letters. Used to test mapping of Private Use Area (PUA) codepoints (e.g. FontAwesome style). 12 KB Download

QA / OPTIMIZATION
Subsetting & Base64

Test Case Description Size Action
Latin Subset Only Aggressive Optimization. Contains ONLY characters A-Z and 0-9. Accents, currency symbols and emojis have been stripped to save size. 4 KB Download
Base64 Ready (Tiny) Extremely small font. Perfect candidate for Base64 conversion to be inlined directly into a CSS file to avoid a network request. 2 KB Download
Corrupted Header Invalid WOFF2 signature. Tests the browser’s ability to fallback to the next font in the CSS font-family stack. 10 KB Download

Technical Specs: WOFF2

  • Brotli Compression: WOFF2 uses the Brotli algorithm (Google), which offers 30-50% better compression than the Zlib compression used in WOFF 1.0.
  • Metadata Stripping: WOFF2 removes unnecessary metadata (like XML info) that existed in TTF files, focusing purely on rendering data to reduce bandwidth.
  • MIME Type: font/woff2 (Standard) or application/font-woff2 (Legacy).

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I install WOFF2 on Windows/Mac?
Generally, no. WOFF2 is designed for browsers only. To install the font on your operating system for use in Word or Photoshop, you need the TTF or OTF version.
Why use WOFF2 instead of WOFF 1.0?
Performance. WOFF2 is significantly smaller. However, if you need to support extremely old browsers (like Internet Explorer 11), you might still need to provide a WOFF 1.0 fallback in your @font-face declaration.

How to inspect WOFF2 files?

Checking if a font contains the right glyphs or variable axes is crucial for frontend devs.

  • Wakamai Fondue: The absolute best online tool (“What can my font do?”). Drop a WOFF2 file to see every character and variable axis.
  • FontDrop: Another great web visualizer to check OpenType features (ligatures, kerning).
  • FontForge: The open-source desktop editor if you need to convert back to TTF or modify the glyphs.

Developer’s Corner: Conversion

Use the Python library fontTools to compress your TTF/OTF files into WOFF2 for production.

# Python: Compress TTF to WOFF2
# pip install fonttools brotli
from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont# Load the font
font = TTFont(‘custom_font.ttf’)

# Save as WOFF2 (auto-compresses)
font.flavor = ‘woff2’
font.save(‘custom_font.woff2’)

print(“Compression complete.”)

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