diff --git a/packages/core/src/fonts/fontCompression.test.ts b/packages/core/src/fonts/fontCompression.test.ts
index 4c20358a0d..75b6aabef8 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/fonts/fontCompression.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/fonts/fontCompression.test.ts
@@ -136,6 +136,25 @@ describe("fontToDataUri", () => {
     expect(uri).toMatch(/^data:font\/otf;base64,/);
   });
 
+  it("embeds ttf and otf raw without compressing or caching when compress is false", async () => {
+    const cacheDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "hf-font-compression-off-"));
+    const compressImpl = vi.fn(async () => Buffer.from("woff2"));
+    try {
+      const raw = Buffer.from("font-bytes");
+      const options = { cacheDir, compressImpl, compressToWoff2: false };
+      expect(await fontToDataUri(raw, "ttf", options)).toBe(
+        `data:font/ttf;base64,${raw.toString("base64")}`,
+      );
+      expect(await fontToDataUri(raw, "otf", options)).toBe(
+        `data:font/otf;base64,${raw.toString("base64")}`,
+      );
+      expect(compressImpl).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      expect(readdirSync(cacheDir)).toEqual([]);
+    } finally {
+      rmSync(cacheDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+
   it("embeds ttc collections raw without attempting slow woff2 compression", async () => {
     const warnings: unknown[][] = [];
     const originalWarn = console.warn;
diff --git a/packages/core/src/fonts/fontCompression.ts b/packages/core/src/fonts/fontCompression.ts
index 1578aae98c..bbeee94455 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/fonts/fontCompression.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/fonts/fontCompression.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ function rawMimeType(format: string): string {
 type FontCompressionOptions = {
   cacheDir?: string;
   compressImpl?: (input: Buffer) => Promise<Buffer>;
+  compressToWoff2?: boolean;
 };
 
 function defaultCacheDir(): string {
@@ -94,8 +95,8 @@ export async function fontToDataUri(
   if (originalFormat === "woff2") {
     return `data:font/woff2;base64,${input.toString("base64")}`;
   }
-  if (originalFormat === "ttc") {
-    return `data:font/collection;base64,${input.toString("base64")}`;
+  if (originalFormat === "ttc" || options.compressToWoff2 === false) {
+    return `data:${rawMimeType(originalFormat)};base64,${input.toString("base64")}`;
   }
   try {
     const cachePath = cachedCompressionPath(
diff --git a/packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.test.ts b/packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.test.ts
index 85050835b8..8ba7639699 100644
--- a/packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.test.ts
+++ b/packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // fallow-ignore-file code-duplication
 import { describe, expect, it, mock, beforeAll } from "bun:test";
 import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
-import { mkdtempSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
+import { mkdtempSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, rmSync, readFileSync, readdirSync } from "node:fs";
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { runInThisContext } from "node:vm";
@@ -1211,6 +1211,52 @@ describe("local font embedding", () => {
     expect(embeddedMessages).toHaveLength(1);
   });
 
+  it("embeds local ttf and otf fonts as-is without woff2 compression", async () => {
+    const projectDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "hf-local-font-raw-"));
+    const cacheDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "hf-local-font-cache-"));
+    const font = readFileSync(
+      join(
+        import.meta.dirname,
+        "../../../../docs/public/catalog/items/frost-sequence-camera-orbit/assets/fonts/Geist-Regular.ttf",
+      ),
+    );
+    writeFileSync(join(projectDir, "a.ttf"), font);
+    writeFileSync(join(projectDir, "b.otf"), font);
+    writeFileSync(
+      join(projectDir, "index.html"),
+      `<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html><head><style>
+  @font-face { font-family: "A"; src: url("a.ttf"); }
+  @font-face { font-family: "B"; src: url("b.otf"); }
+</style></head><body>
+  <div data-composition-id="root" data-width="640" data-height="360" data-duration="1">Text</div>
+</body></html>`,
+    );
+
+    const previousCacheDir = process.env.HYPERFRAMES_FONT_CACHE_DIR;
+    process.env.HYPERFRAMES_FONT_CACHE_DIR = cacheDir;
+    let html: string;
+    try {
+      ({ html } = await compileForRender(projectDir, join(projectDir, "index.html"), projectDir));
+    } finally {
+      if (previousCacheDir === undefined) delete process.env.HYPERFRAMES_FONT_CACHE_DIR;
+      else process.env.HYPERFRAMES_FONT_CACHE_DIR = previousCacheDir;
+    }
+
+    const embedded = (mime: string) =>
+      Buffer.from(
+        html.match(new RegExp(`data:${mime};base64,([A-Za-z0-9+/=]+)`))?.[1] ?? "",
+        "base64",
+      );
+    expect(embedded("font/ttf").equals(font)).toBe(true);
+    expect(embedded("font/otf").equals(font)).toBe(true);
+    expect(html).not.toContain("data:font/woff2");
+    // The woff2 compressor writes every result to this cache; empty means it never ran.
+    expect(readdirSync(cacheDir, { recursive: true })).toEqual([]);
+    rmSync(projectDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    rmSync(cacheDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
   it("keeps large local font collections file-backed instead of expanding them into HTML", async () => {
     const projectDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "hf-large-local-font-"));
     const assetsDir = join(projectDir, "assets");
diff --git a/packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.ts b/packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.ts
index a810dc4d85..f25739a5fc 100644
--- a/packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.ts
+++ b/packages/producer/src/services/htmlCompiler.ts
@@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ async function embedLocalFontFaces(html: string, projectDir: string): Promise<st
               embeddedPaths.add(localPath);
               continue;
             }
-            dataUri = await toDataUri(font.buffer, ext);
+            dataUri = await toDataUri(font.buffer, ext, { compressToWoff2: false });
             dataUriByAbsolutePath.set(absPath, dataUri);
             defaultLogger.info(
               `[Compiler] Embedded local font file: ${localPath} (${(font.buffer.length / 1024).toFixed(0)} KB → data URI)`,