- From: Levantovsky, Vladimir <Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 22:54:40 +0000
- To: David Kuettel <kuettel@google.com>, "public-webfonts-wg@w3.org" <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
+1 to Go Brotli! > -----Original Message----- > From: David Kuettel [mailto:kuettel@google.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 5:43 PM > To: public-webfonts-wg@w3.org; Chris Lilley > Subject: Initial OpenType + SVG compression results w/ WOFF 2.0 > (Brotli) > > Hello Chris, and working group, > > During the conference call yesterday, Chris suggested determining how > well the new SVG in OpenType (color fonts) would compress with WOFF > 2.0 (Brotli). > http://www.w3.org/2013/10/SVG_in_OpenType/ > > Here are some early results, to start exploration. For the first test > font, we see ~15% better compression with WOFF 2.0 (Brotli) over WOFF > 1.0 (GZIP). > > Details: > > >From the above site, I downloaded GeckoEmoji.ttf. Then converted the > font to WOFF 1.0, 2.0. > > Original size: 1,320,708 bytes > WOFF 1.0 size: 521,064 bytes (GZIP compression), ~60% smaller than the > original WOFF 2.0 size: 439,028 bytes (Brotli compression), ~66% > smaller than the original, ~15% smaller than the WOFF 1.0 file > > For a quick comparison, I compressed the original font with LZMA. The > resulting font was larger ~6K larger than the Brotli one. Go Brotli!
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