SVG

SVG — SVG Font

SVG font is a deprecated web font format that stores glyph outlines as inline SVG paths inside a single XML document. Designed for early mobile browsers that could not render TrueType natively, SVG fonts were the only practical way to ship custom typography to iPhones and Android devices before 2013. The W3C deprecated SVG fonts in 2017 and modern browsers removed support, but SVG font files still exist in design tools and archives — making conversion the main reason to handle one today.

History

The W3C added SVG fonts to the SVG 1.1 specification in 2003 as a way to embed type inside an SVG document. Safari on iOS adopted them in 2008, briefly making SVG fonts the only way to ship custom fonts to iPhones. The format never spread beyond WebKit — Firefox shipped a partial implementation in 2010 and removed it in 2017, Chrome removed support in 2015, and Internet Explorer never supported them at all. The W3C deprecated SVG fonts in the SVG 2 working draft in 2015 and removed them entirely from the SVG 2 Recommendation in 2017. Today SVG fonts are interesting mainly as an archival format and as a stepping stone for converting decorative or icon fonts to modern containers. A small ecosystem of design tools and conversion utilities still ships with SVG-font support specifically for these archival round-trips, which is the main reason this page exists.

When to use SVG fonts

Recovering glyphs from legacy SVG font files
Interchange between vector design tools that round-trip SVG cleanly
One-off icon fonts where the SVG-path representation is convenient
Archiving WebKit-era mobile typography

Convert SVG font to other formats

Convert other formats to SVG font

Frequently asked questions

Are SVG fonts still supported in browsers?

No. Chrome removed support in 2015, Firefox in 2017, and Safari deprecated them. Modern websites should not ship SVG fonts. The format is useful only as an archival source for conversion to TTF, OTF, or WOFF2.

How do I convert an SVG font to TTF?

Upload your .svg font file to our converter and pick TTF as the target. Our pipeline reads the SVG glyph paths, recomputes the cubic-to-quadratic outline conversion, and writes a clean .ttf file you can install or convert further.

Is an SVG font the same as an SVG icon?

No — an SVG font is a complete typeface stored as an SVG document, with one glyph element per character mapped to a Unicode code point. An SVG icon is just a single graphic. If you want an icon font today, ship a normal OTF or WOFF2 — the icon-font pattern still works in 2026 even though SVG fonts do not.