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

Want to test header signatures or binary files?

Run binary magic byte inspection in Magic Byte Detector.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.