RE: Initial OpenType + SVG compression results w/ WOFF 2.0 (Brotli)

+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!

Received on Thursday, 9 January 2014 22:55:07 UTC