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Dev · github.com · Tuesday, 30 June 2026

Turn WOFF2 fonts into free Brotli decoders via Canvas

A GitHub tool encodes arbitrary data into color glyphs of a WOFF2 font, then lets browsers decompress it using the built‑in Brotli pipeline when rendered to a canvas. This yields near‑native Brotli sizes without server‑side support, useful for CDNs that lack Brotli. The repo includes a Python encoder and a tiny JS decoder.

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