Proper MIME type for .woff2 fonts

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Limon Monte · Jan 30, 2015 · Viewed 227.3k times · Source

Today I updated Font Awesome package to 4.3.0 and noticed that woff2 font was added. That file is linked in CSS so I need to configure nginx to serve woff2 files properly.

Currently I have this block in nginx config for fonts:

location ~* \.(otf|eot|woff|ttf)$ {
    types     {font/opentype otf;}
    types     {application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot;}
    types     {font/truetype ttf;}
    types     {application/font-woff woff;}
}

What is proper mime type for woff2 fonts?

Answer

In IIS you can declare the mime type for WOFF2 font files by adding the following to your project's web.config:

<system.webServer>
  <staticContent>
    <remove fileExtension=".woff2" />
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff2" mimeType="font/woff2" />
  </staticContent>
</system.webServer>

Update: The mime type may be changing according to the latest W3C Editor's Draft WOFF2 spec. See Appendix A: Internet Media Type Registration section 6.5. WOFF 2.0 which states the latest proposed format is font/woff2

Proper MIME type for .woff2 fonts

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