Compressing fonts for using in web

Question

Can fonts be compressed someway before using as webfonts? I have a font file which is 150kB. Is it possible to compress it down.

And also if i call for both font .eot and .ttf will both be downloaded by browsers?

Answer 1

If you use the FontSquirrel @font-face kit generator - http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator - and choose the expert setting, you can manipulate the settings to achieve a little better compression.