WOFF was a minimal format that exists primarily for the sake of getting the large font foundries on-board with webfonts — the aims were very low. WOFF2 actuall

WOFF was a minimal format that exists primarily for the sake of getting the large font foundries on-board with webfonts — the aims were very low. WOFF2 actually tries to incorporate a lot of the work done since TTF/OTF, some of it patented previously. For example, it includes MicroType Express, which is now covered under the W3C patent policy.