Allow using WOFF fonts in DynamicFont #52052
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PostScript Type 1 fonts (.pfb, .pfm) should also work perfectly with existing code.
The rest of FreeType supported formats (X11 PCF, BCF, Windows FNT) can be loaded and rendered, but have issues with the font metrics and probably aren't worth supporting anyway.
I'm not sure how common these font formats are in the wild. I've never seen those personally 👀 Do these font formats have any upsides that other font formats don't? For instance, WOFF tends to be smaller than equivalent formats, which makes it useful for mobile and web games. |
This is already supported by FreeType, but it wasn't exposed. Adding support for WOFF2 would require linking a Brotli decompression library in Godot, so only WOFF1 is exposed here.
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It's not common and have no upsides, it is a format from 1984, a bunch of old TeX and PostScript printer font are still out there. Adding extensions to the list cost nothing anyway, but doing anything extra definitely not worth it. |
This is already supported by FreeType, but it wasn't exposed.
Adding support for WOFF2 would require linking a Brotli decompression library in Godot, so only WOFF1 is exposed here.
WOFF support is already exposed in
master, so this PR is only relevant for3.x. See discussion in godotengine/godot-docs#5194.Preview
TTF font on the top, WOFF font on the bottom (with different modulation to distinguish it):
Font: Fork Awesome
The fonts render exactly the same, but the TTF file weighs 213 KB wheras the WOFF file weighs only 132 KB.
Testing project: woff.zip