woff2

WOFF2 is pretty cool. I recently ported the C++ woff2 library (https://github.com/google/woff2 - as used by Chrome, Firefox) to Rust (https://github.com/nicoburns/wuff), and it turn out WOFF2 has a bunch of custom font-specific compression algorithms. WOFF1 is kinda boring from a technical perspective: it's just gzip in a font container.

Please educate me if I'm missing something! From memory, what I would do is simply download the original ttfs or otfs, run them through woff2 (https://github.com/google/woff2), and then write the @font-face declarations for each weight/style variation. Variable fonts make this even easier, since you can get by with just the one declaration. One could further optimise them for size with fonttools, to do stuff like subsetting by unicode ranges (https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools), but that's quite optional. Unless your font includes CJK, it's probably not that big to begin with.

Or you use Google's own TTF <-> WOFF2 converter tools: https://github.com/google/woff2 [0] I have very recent -- like, 2 weeks ago -- successful experience of using these, since I wanted to distribute a WOFF2 as part of a browser extension. [0] edited to add - you don't have to build it, you can get it from homebrew https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/woff2 or an Arch package https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/woff2/ and presumably other distros

Your case is a bit weird. You're looking for a specific niche codebase, whose authoratative source has disappeared, and end up at a non-authoratiative archive. That's Google on hard mode. If you knew you wanted the reference converter, a more specific Google search would have worked: https://www.google.com/search?q=ttf2+to+woff+reference+conve... A more in-depth research effort into the solution space also turned up things like FontForge and github.com/google/woff2, neither of which showed up in the GitHub results, but depending on your use-case are likely to have been compelling options. I think it's more important to use FOSS infrastructure for FOSS projects than it is for those projects to turn up in a search result. I also think that projects can and should market themselves in a manner which extends beyond appearing in search results

Butterick's "Practical Typography" gave me a new appreciation for fonts (http://practicaltypography.com/), and this guy seems every bit as passionate about them. For bringing fonts to the web, here are a few things that helped me a lot: - sfnt2woff/woff2sfnt for classic woff - Google's woff2 programs (https://github.com/google/woff2) for woff2 - fontforge for tweaks and fixes (http://designwithfontforge.com)