- Extension
- .bdf
- .woff2
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Font
- Developer
- Adobe
- WebFonts Working Group
- Description
- BDF (Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format) is a text-based file format for storing bitmap fonts, developed by Adobe. It encodes each glyph as a grid of pixels along with metadata such as character encoding, size, and spacing, using a human-readable ASCII format. It is commonly used on X Window System platforms for displaying bitmap fonts.
- The Web Open Font Format 2.0 (WOFF2) file is a modern font format designed specifically for use on the web. It is an evolution of the WOFF format, offering improved compression and thus smaller file sizes, which enhances web performance by reducing the time it takes for fonts to load. WOFF2 supports the same customization and features as its predecessor, but with more efficient encoding and compression mechanisms.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font-bdf
- application/font-woff2