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WOFF2 — TrueType (glyf) Outlines (33% of the raw sfnt)

The same TrueType (glyf) face in a WOFF2 container, 33 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.

Specimen — this file, loaded live via @font-facewoff2

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
Outlines
TrueType (glyf)
Container
WOFF2
Compression
Brotli (whole-font, with transforms)
Source File
NovusWebSource.ttf
Source Bytes
6264
File Bytes
2052
Ratio
33% of the uncompressed sfnt

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Decompress the WOFF2 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 .woff2 file?

WOFF2 is the successor to WOFF, using Brotli compression to shrink web fonts substantially further than the original format. It wraps TrueType or OpenType outlines for efficient browser delivery and is the preferred modern web font format. It offers the smallest sizes with broad current-browser support.

How to use this file

Use an example WOFF2 to test Brotli-based font decoding, web-font delivery performance, and @font-face support with fallbacks to WOFF.

How to use this file for testing

“WOFF2 — TrueType (glyf) Outlines (33% 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.woff2");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }

Generated by generation/fonts_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.