Comments on: Gzip your @font-face files

By: dan

dan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:25:26 +0000

hi there im a bit of a newb to this and i just cant seem to get my head round this i dont know wether you name the actual fonts gzipper or the gziped files either way i cant seem to get it to work for me and i would like to have it working as it seems a very good solution

By: Ameer

Ameer — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:17:59 +0000

I know this post is old. Just wanted to let you know that the fonts you used in the fonts test page; http://www.phpied.com/files/fonts/fonts.html return an MIME type of text/plain.

By: syzen

syzen — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:47:27 +0000

hi!
can anyone tell me how should i configure in my .htaccess file to render my pre-gzipped font file? or can i pre-gzip my font file?
i am newbies on web coding and sorry if i’m asking a stupid question

By: dana

dana — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:20:12 +0000

EWP! WEFT! W3C! WURT!

By: Shadow

Shadow — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:13:32 +0000

Came up with a solution:

Use Apache’s ‘AddType’ declaration to add a custom mime type and then use that mime type in the ‘AddOutputFilterByType’ declaration.

For example, for opentype fonts:

Addtype font/otf .otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css font/otf

http://www.doktortr.net/

By: Vale

Vale — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:48:29 +0000

This still doesn’t help much with asian typefaces. The common asian website features hideous designs anyway, but my problem is rather with the extreme (2-5 megs) size of the required fonts. And since most western users don’t have these fonts, it’s kind of required to include it in css. But downloading that big files is not always possible, nor convenient. Any idea for this problem?

By: Aaron Peters

Aaron Peters — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:44:07 +0000

Great article Stoyan, thanks.

I’ve created a test page to find out if flushing the buffer early can give pages with @font-face a significant performance boost. Results so far are positive.
http://www.aaronpeters.nl/sandbox/flush-font-face

Next step is to test on a more normal webpage (external CSS in the head, etc.). I’ll ping you when I have the results of that test.

Keep up the good work.

- Aaron

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