Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
The Web Open Font Format (or WOFF) is a Font type that was designed for use on the web. It was created in 2009 by a group of developers at Mozilla who sought to make a new font format that could be easily and securely embedded into pages on the web.
Why the Web Open Font Format is needed:
In the past, the use of fonts on web pages was typically limited to the fonts that a end user had installed on their system. The advent of CSS2 and its “font-face” rule in 1998 opened up new possibilities for web designers and developers. It allowed them to embed any standard font into a web page.
The problem was that there was no way to control the licenses of these fonts; anyone could download and re-use any font they wished to. The Web Open File Format was created partly to fix this problem. With the WOFF licensing information can be embedded into the font itself in order to prevent unauthorized use on the web.
Another problem with traditional font formats on the web is file size. An average TTF (true type font) font can range anywhere from a few Kilobytes to several Megabytes in size. Since large files like that can hinder load times on the web, many designers and developers choose not to embed custom fonts at all. The WOFF can help to alleviate that problem. Since it uses the “zlib” compression library, file sizes can be decreased by 40% or more.
How Web Open Fonts will change how we view typefaces on the web:
The WOFF could revolutionize typefaces on the web. It would allow for the designers and developers to use the exact font that they want for their creations, instead of falling back to more widely available fonts.
It could also create a new market for Fonts to be used on the web. Imagine companies and individuals creating and custom fonts and licensing them to be used on specific websites.
Current Web Open Font Browser Support:
As of April 2010 there isn’t complete WOFF support in all browsers on the market, but several key players have expressed interest in supporting it.
Mozilla Firefox was the first major browser to implement the WOFF standard. They began supporting it in their 3.6 release. As a result, any browser based on Mozilla’s open source “Gecko” layout engine should have support for WOFF.
Microsoft has also announced that they are “considering” including WOFF support in their next release of Internet Explorer.
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