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WOFF2, TTF, and OTF Explained

What each font format is for, why WOFF2 to TTF is not a rename, which browsers need which file, and what a converter can and cannot preserve.

A WOFF2 web font file converting into a TTF font file, with an OTF file alongside and tables of glyph outlines

The four formats, briefly

Why many converters refuse WOFF2

TTF vs OTF: which should you ship?

"A font for Internet Explorer and every other browser"

What a conversion can lose

If you are making the font rather than converting one

GLIPH / ASCII SPECIMEN 001

  SPECIMEN / 001                              FONT FILE  .TTF

   .:::::::::.   ::::::::      :::::::::      +---------+
  :+:       :+: :+:    :+:    :+:     :+:     |  .TTF   |
  +#+  +:+  +#+ +#+    +#+   +#+     +#+     |         |
  +#+ +#+#+ +#+ +#+    +#+   +#+     +#+     |         |
   #+#+# #+#+#  #+#    #+#    #+#     #+#     +----+    |
    ###   ###    ########      ########       |    |    |
                                              |    +----+
   a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t    |         |
   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  & ? @ # % * ! + =    +---------+

   hand-drawn or generated  ->  extracted  ->  vectorized
   GLIPH / a sheet of characters becomes a working font

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