What happens when you convert WOFF2 to SVG
- FontForge, the open-source font editor, reads the WOFF2 on our conversion server and writes every glyph as an SVG font: one SVG file whose glyph elements hold each character's outline, with its advance width and kerning.
- An SVG font is not a picture. Opened in a browser or image viewer it shows nothing, because it only defines letter shapes. Safari on old iPhones used SVG fonts on web pages; current browsers other than Safari do not support them.
- To see or edit the outlines, open the SVG in FontForge or Inkscape, or copy a glyph's path data into your own SVG drawing. Hinting and OpenType features such as ligature rules are not part of an SVG font.
- This conversion runs on our server: the file is uploaded, converted, and deleted together with the result as soon as the result has been sent back to you. Nothing is kept. Files up to 25 MB are accepted.
How to convert WOFF2 to SVG online
- Press "Choose WOFF2 files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. Files up to 25 MB each can be converted.
- There are no settings to choose: the converter keeps everything the target format can hold.
- Press "Convert to SVG". The file is uploaded to our conversion server, converted in a few seconds, and deleted together with the result as soon as the result is sent back.
- Save each SVG with its download button. Our server has already deleted both your WOFF2 and the SVG by then.
Why convert WOFF2 to SVG?
WOFF2 files usually come from fonts served by modern websites. An SVG font is what old versions of Safari on iPhone and iPad needed to show custom web fonts, and it is a convenient way to get at a font's glyph outlines as SVG path data for design, embroidery, cutting or plotting work. It is not an ordinary SVG picture: it defines letter shapes and draws nothing by itself.
How to convert WOFF2 to SVG on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android
On Windows
Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your WOFF2 files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each SVG is saved to your Downloads folder.
On a Mac
Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the WOFF2 files from Finder onto the drop zone and the SVG files land in Downloads.
On iPhone and iPad
Open the page in Safari and tap Choose WOFF2 files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted SVG appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.
On Android
Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose WOFF2 files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The SVG is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.
Best settings for WOFF2 to SVG
There are no settings: every glyph in the font is written, with its Unicode value, name and advance width.
If you only need a few letters as artwork, type them in a design program and convert the text to outlines there; that gives an ordinary SVG picture.
WOFF2 vs SVG: the differences
| WOFF2 | SVG | |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Web Open Font Format 2 | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| Type | font | image |
| Created by | the World Wide Web Consortium | the World Wide Web Consortium |
| First released | 2014 | 2001 |
| Compression | Lossless | Lossless |
| Transparency | n/a | Yes |
| Animation | n/a | Yes |
| Vector or raster | n/a | Vector |
| Colour | n/a | any colour, described as shapes rather than pixels |
| What it holds | the tables of a TrueType or OpenType font, compressed with Brotli | any colour, described as shapes rather than pixels |
| In a browser | loads in every current browser through CSS; cannot be installed on a computer | renders natively in every browser |
| Common uses | fonts served by modern websites | logos, icons, charts and illustrations on the web |
| MIME type | font/woff2 | image/svg+xml |
About WOFF2 and SVG files
What is a WOFF2 file?
WOFF2 compresses a font with Brotli and restructures its glyph data first, so it usually comes out around 30 percent smaller than WOFF. Every current browser supports it, which makes it the format to serve on the web today.
What is an SVG file?
SVG describes shapes as text instructions, so it stays sharp at any size and a simple logo can be under 5 KB. Turning it into pixels fixes it at one resolution, so choose the output size before converting.
WOFF2 to SVG not working? Common problems
- "Files up to 25 MB can be converted." Server conversions have a size limit. A font that large usually holds several scripts; subset it to the characters you need first.
- "The conversion took too long and was stopped." Very long or complex files can pass the 90 second limit. Split the file and convert the parts.
- "This file is not really in WOFF2 format." The converter checks every file before it runs anything, so a file of another format renamed to .woff2 is refused. Choose the page for its real format.
Convert WOFF2 to SVG from the command line
FontForge does the same on your own computer:
fontforge -lang=py -c "import fontforge, sys; fontforge.open(sys.argv[1]).generate(sys.argv[2])" input.woff2 output.svgConverting on your own computer keeps the file entirely local, which is worth it for very large or very sensitive documents. For everything else, the converter on this page does it without installing anything.
WOFF2 to SVG converter FAQ
Will I lose quality converting WOFF2 to SVG?
The glyph outlines are copied exactly, curves included. Hinting and OpenType layout features are left out, because an SVG font has no place for them.
Why is the SVG a different size from the WOFF2?
Much larger than the WOFF2: every outline is written out as readable text path data, uncompressed.
Are my WOFF2 files uploaded?
Yes, for this conversion. Writing an SVG font needs FontForge, the open-source font editor, which cannot run in a browser. The file travels over an encrypted connection, is converted in a private temporary folder, and is deleted together with the SVG as soon as the result has been sent back to you. We do not keep, read or share it.
Can I convert several WOFF2 files to SVG at once?
Yes. Select or drop as many files as you like; they are converted one after another and each gets its own download button.
How do I open an SVG file?
The SVG this page makes is an SVG font. It opens in FontForge and Inkscape, where each glyph can be inspected; a browser or image viewer shows an empty page, because the file defines letter shapes rather than a picture.
Is this WOFF2 to SVG converter free?
Yes. There is no sign-up and no watermark. Because this conversion uses our server, there is a fair-use limit of 25 MB per file and a number of files per hour, which stops the service being overloaded.
Can I convert WOFF2 to SVG on my phone?
Yes. It works in Safari on iPhone and iPad and in Chrome on Android. The conversion happens on our server, so it is as fast on a phone as on a computer; the SVG is saved to your Downloads folder.