Licenses

Font tools

Convert a font between the four formats that matter, in this browser. The file never leaves your computer: there is no upload, no server doing the work and no copy of your font sitting anywhere afterwards. That matters for a licensed font, where handing a copy to a converter you have never heard of is the part nobody thinks about.

The converter

One page that does all ten conversions below. Drop a file in, pick what you want out.

Open the font converter

One page each

Every conversion has its own page, with the tool already set to it and a plain explanation of what it does to the font.

Why TTF to OTF is not on this list

WOFF and WOFF2 are containers. A WOFF2 has a TTF or an OTF inside it, packed tightly; unpacking gives that file back exactly as it went in. Converting between them changes the wrapping and nothing else, which is why every conversion above is safe.

TTF and OTF are not two wrappings of one thing. They hold their outlines in different kinds of curve — quadratic in a TTF, cubic in an OTF — so going from one to the other means redrawing every letter in the font. It can be approximated, never matched, and the hinting that tells the shapes how to behave at small sizes does not survive the trip at all.

The sites that offer it in one second are almost always renaming the file. What comes out has an .otf on the end and TTF innards, and the first program you open it in says the font is damaged. A tool that quietly ruins a designer’s outlines is worse than one that says it does not do this, so this one says it.

If a program is refusing your font, the answer is usually not a different outline format. Almost everything that opens an OTF opens a TTF as well, and the real problem is more often a web font where a desktop one is needed — which is WOFF2 to TTF, and is on the list.