Re: WOFF 2.0 (Brotli) Compression Update

I will run the MyFonts library ~350k fonts through the tool. I'll report my
findings possibly as early as the next call.

Joe Vieira

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:08 PM, David Kuettel <kuettel@google.com> wrote:

> Hello Working group,
>
> As planned, the Google Compression team pushed out a new version of Brotlito the open source project.  The highlights (see the previous update for a
> full list), include: simplifications to the Brotli format, decompression
> speed gains for a text corpus, improved text compression (now within 3% of
> LZMA), etc.
>
> Also, the new WOFF 2.0 (w/ Brotli) conversion tool has been open sourced.
>
>
> We are very eager to see the new conversion tool run over the large font
> collections (Monotype, Adobe/Typekit, and more) as was done for the LZMAbased implementation earlier.  This could be good to explore in the
> conference call today.
>
> Thank you,
> David (on behalf of the extended team)
>