So, what's NitroFont Mini, you might ask? Well, the answer is pretty much obvious.
NitroFont is naturally a lightweight version of NitroFont which is more than 10 times smaller than its larger counterpart--at around 5.5 MB. It was released on September 7, 2025.
There are two factors that make NitroFont Mini so small compared to the regular NitroFont:
Use of lower-quality samples (some instruments use shortened and/or lower-frequency versions of the samples they use in NitroFont, or at least similar, though still lower-quality samples).
Use of fewer samples overall (NitroFont 1.1 and, by extension, 1.1_1 have a total of 654 samples, whereas NitroFont Mini has only 311, which is less than half that number).
It's actually hard to think of reasons to use a lower-quality, more compact version of NitroFont, because old computers are rare nowadays. But still, if you have limited disk space or sluggish download speeds, NitroFont Mini can be a good alternative for you. NitroFont isn't completely faithful to NitroFont, but still does sound similar to the latter.