Testing font converters. Analysis of the most useful font converters How to make woff from ttf

Hello everyone.

One of the functions of our service is the ability to download the converted font. At the same time, we want to offer fonts in optimal quality. And in order to make this possible, we tested the most popular font converters available online, without registration and for free.

Although in fact there are a great many converters, not everyone can turn otf \ ttf into woff \ eot \ svg. There are specialized services that work with other formats (.pfb, .dfont, etc.).

We have selected some of the most popular

Fontsquirrel
Font2web
Everything fonts
Online font converter
FreeFontConverter
The latter was never tested, because after submitting the form, the 500th error was thrown.

In order for the testing to be somehow visual, it is necessary to compare something with something. The original web-version of the Paratype PT Sans font in regular and bold styles was taken as a standard.

Also participated in testing Chrome browsers 33.0.1750, Firefox 28, and IE9 on Win7. The font format is woff everywhere, as the most popular and supported.

Let's start by rendering the converted fonts by browsers

Size 16pc

Of the obvious shortcomings.
Fontsquirrel's bold type has an unpleasant flood of small font details. An example is clear. Font2web blurs the outline of characters (example).
The other two converters did the job almost perfectly.

Size 20pc

As you can see, Fontsquirrel badly spoiled regular, but coped with the bold well on the whole. Font2web continued to blur the outline of the characters. Everything Fonts and Online font converter did the job pretty well.

The next point is the usability and capabilities of the converters themselves.

Planned to create a sign with detailed description, but it turned out that, apart from Fontsquirrel, none of them have any settings at all. Therefore, we will compare in a different way.

Total

Based on the results of rendering and the capabilities of the converters, the following can be said.

The most popular - Fontsquirrel- convenient, allows you to fine-tune the result (including optimizing the file weight) produces a single archive and css, but spoils the fonts. Moreover, corruption is unpredictable and can manifest itself both in a certain size and in a certain style. In addition, the converter sometimes refuses to convert the font, referring to its blacklist or damage to the original file.

Font2Web in our humble opinion it shouldn't be used at all. He always spoils fonts in general. In addition, it allows you to convert only one file at a time.

Everything fonts showed itself from a pretty good side in terms of rendering, close to the original. The size of the font file is formed, most likely, by some kind of optimization. visually no deviation was found with the original in the presence of signs. Its 137kb, of course, is not 220 original, but it is reluctant to load extra letters. Of the obvious disadvantages - converting one file at a time.

Online font converter turned out to be extremely inconvenient in terms of use. It has its own archive for each format. For example, there will be three archives for one face: with woff, ttf and eot. However, I compensated for everything with good rendering.

What about us

We use and will continue to use Fontsquirrel for now. At the same time, we decided to develop our own tool that would not spoil the fonts much and make it possible to configure the necessary options when converting.

If someone has other found converters in stock, write in the comments with an explanation, I will supplement the list with your note.

Thank you for the attention.

Hello everyone.

One of the functions of our service is the ability to download the converted font. At the same time, we want to offer fonts in optimal quality. And in order to make this possible, we tested the most popular font converters available online, without registration and for free.

Although in fact there are a great many converters, not everyone can turn otf \ ttf into woff \ eot \ svg. There are specialized services that work with other formats (.pfb, .dfont, etc.).

We have selected some of the most popular

Fontsquirrel
Font2web
Everything fonts
Online font converter
FreeFontConverter
The latter was never tested, because after submitting the form, the 500th error was thrown.

In order for the testing to be somehow visual, it is necessary to compare something with something. The original web-version of the Paratype PT Sans font in regular and bold styles was taken as a standard.

We also tested the browsers Chrome 33.0.1750, Firefox 28, and IE9 on Win7. The font format is woff everywhere, as the most popular and supported.

Let's start by rendering the converted fonts by browsers

Size 16pc

Of the obvious shortcomings.
Fontsquirrel's bold type has an unpleasant flood of small font details. An example is clear. Font2web blurs the outline of characters (example).
The other two converters did the job almost perfectly.

Size 20pc

As you can see, Fontsquirrel badly spoiled regular, but coped with the bold well on the whole. Font2web continued to blur the outline of the characters. Everything Fonts and Online font converter did the job pretty well.

The next point is the usability and capabilities of the converters themselves.

I planned to create a plate with a detailed description, but it turned out that, apart from Fontsquirrel, none of them had any settings at all. Therefore, we will compare in a different way.

Total

Based on the results of rendering and the capabilities of the converters, the following can be said.

The most popular - Fontsquirrel- convenient, allows you to fine-tune the result (including optimizing the file weight) produces a single archive and css, but spoils the fonts. Moreover, corruption is unpredictable and can manifest itself both in a certain size and in a certain style. In addition, the converter sometimes refuses to convert the font, referring to its blacklist or damage to the original file.

Font2Web in our humble opinion it shouldn't be used at all. He always spoils fonts in general. In addition, it allows you to convert only one file at a time.

Everything fonts showed itself from a pretty good side in terms of rendering, close to the original. The size of the font file is formed, most likely, by some kind of optimization. visually no deviation was found with the original in the presence of signs. Its 137kb, of course, is not 220 original, but it is reluctant to load extra letters. Of the obvious disadvantages - converting one file at a time.

Online font converter turned out to be extremely inconvenient in terms of use. It has its own archive for each format. For example, there will be three archives for one face: with woff, ttf and eot. However, I compensated for everything with good rendering.

What about us

We use and will continue to use Fontsquirrel for now. At the same time, we decided to develop our own tool that would not spoil the fonts much and make it possible to configure the necessary options when converting.

If someone has other found converters in stock, write in the comments with an explanation, I will supplement the list with your note.

Thank you for the attention.

Hello everyone.

One of the functions of our service is the ability to download the converted font. At the same time, we want to offer fonts in optimal quality. And in order to make this possible, we tested the most popular font converters available online, without registration and for free.

Although in fact there are a great many converters, not everyone can turn otf \ ttf into woff \ eot \ svg. There are specialized services that work with other formats (.pfb, .dfont, etc.).

We have selected some of the most popular

Fontsquirrel
Font2web
Everything fonts
Online font converter
FreeFontConverter
The latter was never tested, because after submitting the form, the 500th error was thrown.

In order for the testing to be somehow visual, it is necessary to compare something with something. The original web-version of the Paratype PT Sans font in regular and bold styles was taken as a standard.

We also tested the browsers Chrome 33.0.1750, Firefox 28, and IE9 on Win7. The font format is woff everywhere, as the most popular and supported.

Let's start by rendering the converted fonts by browsers

Size 16pc

Of the obvious shortcomings.
Fontsquirrel's bold type has an unpleasant flood of small font details. An example is clear. Font2web blurs the outline of characters (example).
The other two converters did the job almost perfectly.

Size 20pc

As you can see, Fontsquirrel badly spoiled regular, but coped with the bold well on the whole. Font2web continued to blur the outline of the characters. Everything Fonts and Online font converter did the job pretty well.

The next point is the usability and capabilities of the converters themselves.

I planned to create a plate with a detailed description, but it turned out that, apart from Fontsquirrel, none of them had any settings at all. Therefore, we will compare in a different way.

Total

Based on the results of rendering and the capabilities of the converters, the following can be said.

The most popular - Fontsquirrel- convenient, allows you to fine-tune the result (including optimizing the file weight) produces a single archive and css, but spoils the fonts. Moreover, corruption is unpredictable and can manifest itself both in a certain size and in a certain style. In addition, the converter sometimes refuses to convert the font, referring to its blacklist or damage to the original file.

Font2Web in our humble opinion it shouldn't be used at all. He always spoils fonts in general. In addition, it allows you to convert only one file at a time.

Everything fonts showed itself from a pretty good side in terms of rendering, close to the original. The size of the font file is formed, most likely, by some kind of optimization. visually no deviation was found with the original in the presence of signs. Its 137kb, of course, is not 220 original, but it is reluctant to load extra letters. Of the obvious disadvantages - converting one file at a time.

Online font converter turned out to be extremely inconvenient in terms of use. It has its own archive for each format. For example, there will be three archives for one face: with woff, ttf and eot. However, I compensated for everything with good rendering.

What about us

We use and will continue to use Fontsquirrel for now. At the same time, we decided to develop our own tool that would not spoil the fonts much and make it possible to configure the necessary options when converting.

If someone has other found converters in stock, write in the comments with an explanation, I will supplement the list with your note.

Thank you for the attention.