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a cross-browser, web-only font format that uses gzip compression. IE9+, FF3.6+, Chrome 5+

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Woff file mime type and Azure

I am trying to deploy an ASP.Net MVC4 TwitterBootstrap application to my new hosting at Azure. All is working 100%, except, a file '\Fonts\glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff' was throwing a 404 error when using Chrome (The network tab when using…
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How can I remove glyphs from a WOFF?

Are there any javascript libraries that can shrink a WOFF (and WOFF2) font down to only the glyphs used in an SVG image? For example, given a font and an array of strings it will return the bare minimum font needed to display those strings. My first…
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How to tell if a .woff font has hinting?

I have a .woff font that is rendering very poorly on Windows platforms. I suspect this may be due to a lack of hinting information but I need to make sure. Can you recommend a tool that can inspect the font file and tell me if hinting metrics exist…
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Combine multiple .woff files into one

On a website I manage we have several .woff files, one for each font. In the interest to save loading time I want to reduce the number of requests made. Is it possible to combine these woff files into one resource?
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WOFF2 - HTTP Content-Type response header suggestion

I'm doing some website optimisations using PageSpeed. I faced a next suggestion: The following resources have no character set specified in their HTTP headers. Specifying a character set in HTTP headers can speed up browser…
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WOFF Fonts, what Are they and why should I care?

So mozilla has proposed a new webfont, i'm not really into that world, but i want to keep myself up2date. So whats the great thing since even Microsoft is backing it, why should I as a webdev care? Whats the difference from the old ones? Do we need…
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Rails 3 web font (woff) mime type

We serve some web fonts (.woff) from our static assets and I would like to set the correct mime type (application/x-font-woff). I tried to do this in config/initializers/mime_types.rb but it had no effect: Mime::Type.register…
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Chrome on Windows 7 and WOFF vs. WOFF2 rendering

I recently attempted to automatically convert a WOFF encoding of a font to WOFF2. On Windows 8 and Mac OS 10.12, WOFF2 renders close enough between Chrome 60, IE 11, and Firefox 55. WOFF2 renders very badly in Chrome on Windows 7, but WOFF doesn't…
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Font error in Firefox

I'm getting this error in Firefox 51.0.1 conole: downloadable font: maxp: bad max_zones: 0 (font-family: "t" style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal src index:0) source:…
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What are legal characters in Font names?

What characters do I have to expect when "consuming" font names and which ones should I avoid when "producing" font names? Are there differences between different operating systems, traditional desktop applications, mobile or web apps (->CSS) and…
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Detecting with Javascript whether a Browser supports Web Open Font Format (Woff) or not

i have to detect with JS (jQuery) wether a browser supports Woff and then add a class to the body. Something like this: if(woffIsSupported){ $('body').addClass('modern'); } is this somehow possible? Thank you for your answers.
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Webpack 4: WOFF, WOFF2, SVGs failed to load

ERROR in ./node_modules/bootstrap/dist/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff 1:4 Module parse failed: Unexpected character '' (1:4) You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type. (Source code omitted for this binary…
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TTF (truetype) to WOFF(webfont) conversion using ruby

How do you convert a .ttf file to .woff file (webfont) using ruby? We want to allow users to upload a ttf file, convert it and embed the woff file.
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How to use a data uri with @font-face in Firefox

I am designing a splash page for a public wifi access point and Firefox refuse to display my custom font, while it work in every other browser (well, not IE < 9 but that was expected). The page need to work in the following constraint : No access…
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Firefox font issues - Bootstrap Glyphicons

Trying to use Bootstrap 3.0 (pulled via Bower) Glyphicons icon font in an app. Works perfectly in all browsers locally. In a staging environment on heroku, icon font isn't working on Firefox. Font is hosted in an S3 bucket WITH cross-domain settings…
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