SVG Font Converter
FileFlip converts SVG Font files into 4 other formats entirely inside your browser, using the font engine compiled to WebAssembly. The SVG Font file is never uploaded to a server: it is read off your disk, converted on your own machine, and saved back by the browser. There is no file-size limit and no account to create.
How do I convert an SVG Font file?#
- Drop your SVG Font file onto the converter at the top of this page, or click it to pick one from your computer.
- Choose the format you want out of it. FileFlip downloads the engine that conversion needs, once, and your browser caches it.
- Conversion starts the moment you pick the format, and the result is yours to download. The work happens in this tab, so nothing is uploaded and nothing is queued.
Is it safe to convert SVG Font files online?#
Yes, because nothing is uploaded. FileFlip converts SVG Font files inside the browser tab you already have open, using WebAssembly builds of the same engines a desktop converter would install. Your file is read from your own disk into the page's memory, and no request carrying it is ever made.
You do not have to take that on trust. Open your browser's network panel, run a conversion, and you will see the engine come down and your file go nowhere. There is no upload, no server-side copy, no retention window, and no account tied to what you converted.
How FileFlip works lists every engine, its version and its download size, and shows how to check for yourself that nothing leaves your machine.
What happens to a SVG Font file#
FileFlip converts SVG Font into 4 formats with the font engine, all of it inside the browser tab. Each conversion below names the engine it uses, what it downloads, and exactly what that conversion keeps or drops.
| Category | Fonts |
|---|---|
| File extension | .svg |
| FileFlip support | Read and written |
| Conversions available | 4 |
| Engines | the font engine |
| Downloaded to your browser | 0.7 MB on the first conversion, then cached |
What is an SVG Font file?#
An SVG font file defines each glyph as an SVG path inside a font element, an XML-based approach the SVG 1.1 specification allowed and that SVG 2 has since removed.
There's little current reason to choose SVG fonts for web text; icon font systems built years ago are the main place they still appear.
Convert an SVG font to WOFF2 for anything meant to render as text in a current browser, since SVG font support is largely gone.
The SVG Font file format reference covers the specification, the programs that open one, and what each conversion keeps or drops.
SVG Font questions people ask#
Do browsers still support SVG fonts?
Barely. Chrome removed support in version 38 back in 2014 and Opera followed soon after, while Firefox and Edge never implemented SVG fonts at all. Safari is the one major browser that still renders them, which makes SVG fonts unreliable for any site that needs to work everywhere.
Why were SVG fonts deprecated?
SVG 2 removed the font-specific elements, like glyph and font, that SVG 1.1 had defined, pointing to WOFF as the format browsers should use for web fonts instead. WOFF and WOFF2 compress better and reuse the existing TrueType and OpenType glyph model, which made a separate SVG-based font format redundant.
What's the difference between an SVG font and a regular SVG icon set?
An SVG font defines glyphs inside a font element so text can reference them by character, the same way a browser looks up a letter in TTF or WOFF. A regular SVG icon set is just a collection of separate SVG files or symbol elements, each inserted directly rather than looked up as a character, which is why icon systems moved to plain SVG sprites once SVG font support started disappearing from browsers.