WOFF — With an Extended Metadata Block
A WOFF file carrying the optional extended-metadata block from the WOFF specification — vendor, credits, description and licence as XML alongside the font, outside the sfnt tables. Most converters drop it silently; this is the file that proves whether yours does. 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 Web
- 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
- Container
- WOFF
- Extended Metadata
- XML metadata block (uniqueid, vendor, credits, description, license)
- Metadata Bytes
- 508
- Font Revision
- 1.0
- Source File
- NovusWebSource.ttf
- Note
- the metadata block is compressed inside the container, not in a table
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Convert the WOFF to TTF and back, then read the metadata block.
- Expected result
- The block survives a round trip through a conforming tool and parses as the documented XML; a tool that drops it produces a file with no metadata and no warning.
What is a .woff file?
WOFF (Web Open Font Format) wraps TrueType or OpenType font data with compression and metadata specifically for efficient delivery over the web. It reduces download size and is recognized by all modern browsers via CSS @font-face. It is essentially a web-optimized container around an existing font.
How to use this file
Use an example WOFF to test web-font loading, decompression back to the underlying font, and @font-face rendering across browsers.
How to use this file for testing
“WOFF — With an Extended Metadata Block” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Web assets, Metadata testing. 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("NovusWebSourceMeta.woff");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }Related files
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- ttfTTF — Static Instance, Black (wght 900)A real static instance cut from the wght variable font at 900 — outlines interpolated once and baked, fvar and gvar stripped, usWeightClass set to match. For testing static-versus-variable fallback paths and family/style grouping. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Static Instance, Bold (wght 700)A real static instance cut from the wght variable font at 700 — outlines interpolated once and baked, fvar and gvar stripped, usWeightClass set to match. For testing static-versus-variable fallback paths and family/style grouping. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Static Instance, Condensed Bold (wght 700, wdth 75)A two-axis instance baked out of the weight-by-width variable font, with both usWeightClass and usWidthClass set to match. For testing that a family grouper reads width from OS/2 rather than guessing it from the style name. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Static Instance, Light (wght 300)A real static instance cut from the wght variable font at 300 — outlines interpolated once and baked, fvar and gvar stripped, usWeightClass set to match. For testing static-versus-variable fallback paths and family/style grouping. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Static Instance, Medium (wght 500)A real static instance cut from the wght variable font at 500 — outlines interpolated once and baked, fvar and gvar stripped, usWeightClass set to match. For testing static-versus-variable fallback paths and family/style grouping. Original typeface, free to use.
Generated by generation/fonts_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.