Learn to say popular web font file format names correctly.
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How is WOFF (Web Open Font Format, the standard compressed web font format) correctly pronounced?
WOFF is pronounced 'WAWF' — one syllable, rhymes with 'cough'. In a technical interview: "WOFF compressed the typeface enough that it no longer delayed the page's first paint."
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How is WOFF2 (successor to WOFF with better compression, using the Brotli algorithm) correctly pronounced?
WOFF2 is pronounced 'WAWF-too' — 'WOFF' said the usual way, plus the number 'two'. In a technical interview: "WOFF2 shaved another thirty percent off the font file compared to the original WOFF."
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How is TTF (TrueType Font, a widely supported outline font format) correctly pronounced?
TTF is pronounced 'TEE-TEE-EF' — every letter spoken individually, T-T-F. In a technical interview: "TTF worked fine as a fallback for the handful of legacy browsers we still had to support."
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How is OTF (OpenType Font, an outline font format supporting advanced typographic features) correctly pronounced?
OTF is pronounced 'OH-TEE-EF' — every letter spoken individually, O-T-F. In a technical interview: "OTF supported the ligatures and small caps that the older TTF file simply didn't have."
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How is EOT (Embedded OpenType, a legacy web font format used only by old Internet Explorer) correctly pronounced?
EOT is pronounced 'EE-OH-TEE' — every letter spoken individually, E-O-T. In a technical interview: "EOT was still in our font-face fallback chain long after every other browser had moved on."