You've gone to Google fonts and downloaded a zip of ttf files and you call it a day. You can host them and use them and everyone's happy.
But the files are large, and we're making users download them all, this is awkward...
In comes woff2 which is some sick compression algo applied to fonts. We're web developers, we don't write for loops we use them.
We'll use Googles library: https://github.com/google/woff2
Steps
- Clone it
git clone --recursive https://github.com/google/woff2.git - Go into the repo
cd woff2 - Make it
make all - Run it
./woff2_compress Roboto-Bold.ttf - Enjoy
