THE FONT FIELD GUIDE
Font formats.
A little clarity.
Every format has its place. Find the right one for your website, your design tools, or your next typographic adventure.
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FROM THE EVERYDAY TO THE SPECIALISTModern websites
A compact format made for fast-loading websites. Start here for most web projects.
DESKTOP TTFAn everyday essential
A familiar format for installing fonts and using them across apps and operating systems.
DESKTOP OTFFor the finer details
An OpenType container for desktop typography, design applications, and rich font features.
WEB WOFFA dependable web companion
A web font format useful when your project needs a WOFF version alongside WOFF2.
LEGACY EOTLegacy web fonts
An older format for projects that need support for early versions of Internet Explorer.
VECTOR SVGLetters as vectors
An SVG font describes glyphs as vector shapes. Useful for some specialist workflows.
COLLECTION TTCA family in one file
A TrueType Collection packages multiple related fonts into one container.
SOURCE UFOBehind the typeface
A directory-based source format used in font editing and development.
A LITTLE MORE SPECIALIZED
For the paths less typed.
Legacy, source, and metrics formats have specific uses. Some can only be read, and metrics files don’t contain complete glyph outlines. The converter shows the available outputs for your files.
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