Technical MIME Specification & Web Server Guide

font/woff2

Technical overview, official IANA specification, header magic bytes, and server configuration snippets for .WOFF2 files (Web Open Font Format 2.0).

File Extension

.woff2

Content-Type Header

font/woff2

Format Category

Fonts

Standard Specification

W3C WOFF 2.0 / RFC 8081

Description & Usage

Next-generation web font compressed using Brotli compression.

HTTP Server Content-Type Configuration Code

# Nginx mime.types configuration for .woff2
types {
    font/woff2    woff2;
}

OS Compatibility Matrix

Windows

macOS

Linux

Android

iOS

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Preguntas frecuentes

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The official MIME content type for .woff2 files is "font/woff2". Web servers use this header to instruct browsers how to render or process .woff2 data.