WOFF2 to SVG Font Converter
FileFlip converts WOFF2 to SVG Font entirely inside your browser, using the font engine compiled to WebAssembly. The file is never uploaded to a server: it is read off your disk, converted on your own machine, and saved back by the browser. That means no file-size limit, no queue and no account.
How do I convert a WOFF2 file to SVG Font?#
- Drop your WOFF2 file onto the converter at the top of this page, or click it to pick one from your computer. You can add as many as you like.
- Leave the target set to SVG Font and the conversion starts on its own. FileFlip downloads 0.7 MB of WebAssembly the first time and nothing after that, then runs the font engine on your own machine.
- Save the SVG Font file. Your browser writes it straight to your downloads folder, because there was never a server holding it.
Does converting WOFF2 to SVG Font lose quality?#
No. The glyph outlines are converted between outline models rather than redrawn, so the letterforms in the SVG Font file are the ones in the WOFF2 file. What can change is the hinting and the OpenType tables around them.
Is it safe to convert WOFF2 files online?#
Yes, because nothing is uploaded. FileFlip converts WOFF2 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 WOFF2 to SVG Font actually does to the file#
Converting WOFF2 to SVG Font runs on the font engine, downloads 0.7 MB of WebAssembly the first time and nothing after that, converts the glyph outlines between outline models, keeps hinting and kerning, and drops OpenType features.
| Engine | the font engine |
|---|---|
| Conversion path | One step: WOFF2 → SVG Font |
| Downloaded to your browser | 0.7 MB, once, then cached by your browser |
| Quality | Outlines preserved |
| You get back | One file |
| Where it runs | On the page's own thread, so a very large file will make the tab wait |
What survives the conversion
| What is in the file | This conversion | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Hinting | Kept | Carried through into the converted file. |
| Kerning | Kept | Carried through into the converted file. |
| OpenType features | Dropped | The target format has nowhere to put it. |
Worth knowing before you start:
- this conversion runs on the page's own thread, so a large file will freeze the tab while it works
What is a WOFF2 file?#
A WOFF2 file wraps a TrueType or OpenType font in a Brotli-compressed container built for @font-face delivery on the web, replacing WOFF's older zlib compression.
Serve WOFF2 as the primary font format for any website, since it's the smallest option every current browser supports.
Convert away from WOFF2 only when a font needs to be installed on a desktop or opened by a font editor, since WOFF2 exists purely for web delivery.
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.
WOFF2 to SVG Font questions people ask#
How much smaller is WOFF2 than WOFF?
WOFF2 typically comes in around 30 percent smaller than the same font packaged as WOFF, because it replaces WOFF's zlib compression with Brotli and adds a font-specific preprocessing step before compressing. The exact saving varies by font, but it's consistent enough that WOFF2 is the default choice for new @font-face declarations.
Do I still need WOFF if I'm using WOFF2?
Only for older browsers. Every browser still receiving security updates supports WOFF2, so a WOFF fallback in the @font-face src list mainly protects against very old or niche browsers that never added WOFF2 support, most notably Internet Explorer.
Can I install a WOFF2 file as a system font?
Not directly. WOFF2 is a web delivery format, so Windows, macOS and Linux font installers don't recognize it, and it needs converting to TTF or OTF before an operating system will install it as a usable font.
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.