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font/woff2

WOFF2 is the compressed webfont standard most teams ship in production to reduce font download cost without sacrificing browser support.

font
Compressible in transit

Content-Type header

Content-Type: font/woff2
Common extensions
.woff2

How teams usually encounter it

This page maps the media type to the file extensions and delivery behaviors developers usually care about: browser parsing, upload validation, cache correctness, and asset handling.

Compression signal

font/woff2 often benefits from gzip or Brotli in HTTP delivery because the payload is text-like or structurally repetitive.

Server config snippets

Use these when a server is missing the right extension-to-MIME mapping or you want the expected header to survive a proxy, CDN, or custom asset bucket setup.

Nginx
types {
  font/woff2 woff2;
}
Apache
AddType font/woff2 .woff2

Signature note

This MIME type does not include a magic-byte sample here because the signature is either format-dependent or not reliable enough to present as a debugging shortcut.

Operational shortcut

If a browser downloads this asset instead of rendering it correctly, check the response header first, then verify the extension mapping on your origin and edge cache. .woff2 is the fastest sanity check for teammates reviewing the file outside the app.

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