How to use base64 command with CURL?

If I attempt to base64 encode a font file and output the contents to a text file like so:

base64 myfont.woff2 > output.txt

It works great given that the font is stored locally. However if I try to curl the font from a web url and base64 the output it results in a bunch of gibberish being saved to the file, for example:

#!/bin/bash
declare -a arr=(
    "https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/opensans/v14/K88pR3goAWT7BTt32Z01mxJtnKITppOI_IvcXXDNrsc.woff2"
)

for i in "${arr[@]}"
do
    content="$(curl -s "$i")"
    echo base64 "$content" > output.txt
done

How to get this to work?

How to use base64 command with CURL?

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