macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install woff2local Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install woff2MacPorts ports tree · print/woff2/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew
Install woff2 with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper
Utilities to create and convert Web Open Font File (WOFF) files. Version 1.0.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add libwoff2commonAlpine Linux edge package indexes · libwoff2common · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install libwoff-devDebian stable package indexes · libwoff-dev · source: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install woff2Fedora Rawhide package metadata · woff2 · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#woff2nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/wo/woff2/package.nix · source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S woff2Arch Linux sync databases · woff2 · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install libwoff2common1_0_2openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · libwoff2common1_0_2 · source: download.opensuse.org
overview
Package summary
Utilities to create and convert Web Open Font File (WOFF) files
Project links
Commands and aliases
- woff2_compress
- woff2_decompress
- woff2_info
history
Project history and usage
WOFF2 is both a W3C web-font packaging standard and, in package-manager form, Google's reference C++ encoder/decoder utilities for the format. The format improves on WOFF 1.0 by combining font-aware preprocessing with Brotli compression so web fonts can be transferred more compactly while remaining suitable for CSS @font-face deployment.
Project history
The W3C publication history records WOFF2's First Public Working Draft on 8 May 2014, Working Draft in 2015, Candidate Recommendation Snapshot in 2016, Proposed Recommendation in January 2018, and Recommendation on 1 March 2018, with later Recommendation updates in 2021, 2022, and 2024. The current W3C Recommendation says WOFF2 was developed from experience with widely deployed WOFF 1.0 and was designed to reduce network bandwidth while keeping decompression fast enough for mobile devices.
Google's woff2 repository was created in October 2014 and provides the font compression reference code. Its README separates the Brotli reference code from the C++ font compression and decompression code, and the repository's releases show 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 in October 2017 followed by 1.0.2 in November 2017, just before the format reached W3C Recommendation status.
Adoption history
WOFF2 moved from an optimization experiment into the default web-font format because it could be deployed alongside WOFF 1.0 in normal CSS. The W3C Evaluation Report explained that @font-face can list WOFF2 first and WOFF as a fallback without user-agent sniffing, and the current Recommendation states that WOFF2 is implemented in all major browsers and widely used on production websites.
The format's adoption was tied to measurable compression gains. The W3C Evaluation Report found Brotli-based WOFF2 had median gains of about 23.94% over WOFF1 on the Google Fonts TrueType corpus and 26.79% on an Adobe TrueType corpus, while keeping memory and decompression cost within the constraints needed for web deployment.
How it is used
Package users normally run woff2_compress to convert TTF or OTF fonts into .woff2 files, woff2_decompress to round-trip them back to OpenType/SFNT data, and woff2_info to inspect the package. Web developers then reference .woff2 files from CSS @font-face rules, often with older formats as fallbacks only when legacy browser support is required.
Why package nerds care
The package is important because it gives distributions a small, standalone implementation of a core web platform format. It is used by font build pipelines, web asset optimizers, browser tests, and packaging workflows that need reproducible conversion between OpenType fonts and the compressed format browsers actually fetch.
Timeline
- 2014: WOFF2 First Public Working Draft published by W3C and Google's woff2 repository created.
- 2016: WOFF 2.0 Evaluation Report published as a W3C Working Group Note, comparing compression candidates and deployment constraints.
- 2017: Google woff2 1.0.x releases published.
- 2018: WOFF2 became a W3C Recommendation.
- 2024: W3C published an updated WOFF2 Recommendation and implementation report material.
Related projects
- WOFF 1.0 is WOFF2's predecessor and remains the fallback format in many historical CSS examples.
- Brotli is the entropy-coding layer used by WOFF2; the W3C Recommendation records Google's royalty-free licensing commitment for Brotli use in the specification.
- FontTools implements WOFF2 support in Python and is listed in the W3C implementation report alongside Google's C++ woff2 implementation.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:compress
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.
- Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.
Recommended review
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
woff2_compress | cli | global executable | |
woff2_decompress | cli | global executable | |
woff2_info | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.0.2
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv1.0.2
https://github.com/google/woff2
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:woff2 |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.0.2 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/woff2 |
| Homepage | https://github.com/google/woff2 |
| Repository | https://github.com/google/woff2 |
| Upstream docs | https://github.com/google/woff2#readme |
| License | MIT |
| Source archive | https://github.com/google/woff2/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.2.tar.gz |
| Dependencies | brotli |
| Build dependencies | cmake |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | woff2 |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
libwoff-dev 1.0.2-2+b2
library for converting fonts to WOFF 2.0 - development files
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo apt install libwoff-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: woff2
- 2 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
Debian apt95%
libwoff1 1.0.2-2+b2
library for converting fonts to WOFF 2.0
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo apt install libwoff1- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: woff2
- 4 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
Debian apt95%
woff2 1.0.2-2+b2
utilities for converting fonts to WOFF 2.0
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo apt install woff2- Section: utils
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: woff2
- 4 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
Nix95%
woff2
nix profile install nixpkgs#woff2- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
Ubuntu apt95%
libwoff-dev 1.0.2-2build1
library for converting fonts to WOFF 2.0 - development files
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo apt install libwoff-dev- Section: libdevel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: woff2
- 2 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
Ubuntu apt95%
libwoff1 1.0.2-2build1
library for converting fonts to WOFF 2.0
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo apt install libwoff1- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: woff2
- 4 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
Ubuntu apt95%
woff2 1.0.2-2build1
utilities for converting fonts to WOFF 2.0
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo apt install woff2- Section: universe/utils
- Architecture: amd64
- 4 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
apk95%
libwoff2common 1.0.2-r4
Web Open Font Format 2 reference implementation (common library)
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo apk add libwoff2common- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: woff2
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
apk95%
libwoff2dec 1.0.2-r4
Web Open Font Format 2 reference implementation (encoder library)
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo apk add libwoff2dec- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: woff2
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
apk95%
libwoff2enc 1.0.2-r4
Web Open Font Format 2 reference implementation (decoder library)
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo apk add libwoff2enc- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: woff2
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
apk95%
woff2 1.0.2-r4
Web Open Font Format 2 reference implementation
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo apk add woff2- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: woff2
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
apk95%
woff2-dev 1.0.2-r4
Web Open Font Format 2 reference implementation (development files)
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo apk add woff2-dev- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: woff2
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
dnf95%
woff2 1.0.2-25.fc44
Web Open Font Format 2.0 library
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo dnf install woff2- License: MIT
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: woff2
- 6 dependencies
- 4 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
dnf95%
woff2-devel 1.0.2-25.fc44
Development files for woff2
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo dnf install woff2-devel- License: MIT
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: i686
- Source Package: woff2
- 6 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
dnf95%
woff2-tools 1.0.2-25.fc44
Web Open Font Format 2.0 tools
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo dnf install woff2-tools- License: MIT
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: woff2
- 8 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
pacman95%
woff2 1.0.2-6
Web Open Font Format 2 reference implementation
https://github.com/google/woff2
sudo pacman -S woff2- License: MIT
- Architecture: x86_64
- 3 dependencies
- 3 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Woff2
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