WOFF — 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.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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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
- Outlines
- TrueType (glyf)
- Container
- WOFF
- Compression
- zlib (per table)
- Source File
- NovusWebSource.ttf
- Source Bytes
- 6264
- File Bytes
- 3068
- Ratio
- 49% of the uncompressed sfnt
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Decompress the WOFF back to sfnt and diff against the source file.
- Expected result
- Glyph outlines, metrics and the name table round-trip unchanged; WOFF2's glyf transform is reversed on unpacking rather than being a lossy step.
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 — TrueType (glyf) Outlines (49% of the raw sfnt)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Web assets, Performance 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("NovusWebSource.woff");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }Related files
- ttfTTF — Full Face (subsetting baseline)The complete face the rest of the subset set is cut from: the whole glyph repertoire with ligatures, kerning, contextual alternates, small caps, stylistic sets, figures, fractions, marks and localised forms intact. Measure it, then measure the cuts. 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 — Subset with Layout Features KeptA subset cut to just the characters the kerning, ligature, small-cap and figure probes need, keeping every OpenType layout feature whose glyphs survived. Half of a pair whose only difference is the layout tables — the pair that shows what a default subsetter setting silently costs you. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Subset: DigitsThe full face subset to U+0030-U+0039 (digits only) — a numeric-display cut, the shape a dashboard font ends up. Layout features are kept, so lookups whose glyphs were removed are the ones you can watch disappear. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Subset: HeadlineThe 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.
- ttfTTF — Subset: Latin BasicThe full face subset to U+0020-U+007E (printable ASCII) — the range a Latin-only page actually needs. Layout features are kept, so lookups whose glyphs were removed are the ones you can watch disappear. Original typeface, free to use.
Generated by generation/fonts_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.