The following two sets of slides describe the format and in what ways it shall be better than deflate: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2

The following two sets of slides describe the format and in what ways it shall be better than deflate: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2013Oct/att-0008/Brotli_Compression_Algortihm_-_motivation.pdf http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2013O... http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2013Oct/att-0008/Brotli_Compression_Algorithm_-_outline_of_a_specification.pdf http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2013O... EDIT: They are from October 2013, so they may be inaccurate.