TTF — Subset: Headline
The full face subset to the 8 codepoints of the string NOVUS 07 — the extreme case a headline-only web font gets cut down to. Layout features are kept, so lookups whose glyphs were removed are the ones you can watch disappear. Original typeface, free to use.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & ! ? @ # % ( ) — “ ”
12pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
16pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
28pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
40pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Specifications
- Family
- Novus Grotesk P7 Subset
- Units Per Em
- 1000
- Cap Height
- 700
- X Height
- 500
- Wave
- p7
- Seed
- 20260807
- Built With
- fontTools 4.x
- Determinism
- head.created/head.modified pinned to 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z, recalcTimestamp off; outlines are parametric, colour material is seeded
- Usage Rights
- original artwork, free for any use
- Coverage
- the 8 codepoints of the string NOVUS 07
- Glyphs
- 23
- Source Glyphs
- 157
- Source Bytes
- 15088
- Reduction
- 78% smaller than the full face
- Tool
- fontTools.subset
- Layout Features
- kept where their glyphs survived
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Render text outside the subset range and diff the glyph count against the full face.
- Expected result
- The face carries 23 glyphs instead of 157; characters outside the 8 codepoints of the string NOVUS 07 render as .notdef rather than silently falling back.
What is a .ttf file?
TTF (TrueType Font) is a scalable outline font format developed by Apple and Microsoft that uses quadratic Bezier curves and includes hinting for sharp rendering at small sizes. It stores glyph outlines, metrics, and character mappings in a single file. It is one of the most widely supported desktop and web font formats.
How to use this file
Use an example TTF to test font parsers, glyph and metric extraction, text-rendering pipelines, and converters that produce web font formats like WOFF.
How to use this file for testing
“TTF — Subset: Headline” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Performance testing, Web assets. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: seed 20260807. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Font fixtures carry a small documented glyph set across the common wrappers. Test font loaders, subsetting, and @font-face; the specimen preview renders the glyphs the face actually maps.
Code examples
@font-face {
font-family: "Sample";
src: url("NovusSubsetHeadline.ttf");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }Related files
- otfOTF — Web Container Source, CFF (Type 2) OutlinesThe uncompressed CFF (Type 2) source for this container set. Every WOFF and WOFF2 file in the group is packed from exactly these bytes, so a compression comparison is measuring the container and nothing else. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Partially Instanced Variable Font (wdth pinned, wght live)The two-axis font with its width axis pinned to Condensed and its weight axis left live — the shipping shape for a site that wants one width but the whole weight range. For testing that a loader reads the reduced fvar rather than the original axis list. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Web Container Source, TrueType (glyf) OutlinesThe uncompressed TrueType (glyf) source for this container set. Every WOFF and WOFF2 file in the group is packed from exactly these bytes, so a compression comparison is measuring the container and nothing else. Original typeface, free to use.
- woffWOFF — CFF (Type 2) Outlines (55% of the raw sfnt)The same CFF (Type 2) face in a WOFF container, 55 percent of the raw sfnt size. Compare it against the other three containers in this group to see how much of a web font's weight is the format and how much is the design. Original typeface, free to use.
- woffWOFF — TrueType (glyf) Outlines (49% of the raw sfnt)The same TrueType (glyf) face in a WOFF container, 49 percent of the raw sfnt size. Compare it against the other three containers in this group to see how much of a web font's weight is the format and how much is the design. Original typeface, free to use.
- woff2WOFF2 — CFF (Type 2) Outlines (45% of the raw sfnt)The same CFF (Type 2) face in a WOFF2 container, 45 percent of the raw sfnt size. Compare it against the other three containers in this group to see how much of a web font's weight is the format and how much is the design. Original typeface, free to use.
Generated by generation/fonts_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.