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A Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for full Unicode support, code refactoring and other new features. Font Combiner is an application that allows easy drag-and-drop font suppl…

Big changes made since first shown to HN about a year ago in an early beta stage. Hopefully ready for some proper promotion (one of the biggest hurdles). Features include browser-s…

Imgur isn't a problem, and this shouldn't be a problem for Imgur. There are similarities, but that's mostly due to necessity in good UI. If people prefer Imgur, they should certain…

Finding a way to provide viable (fast and high quality) image resizing on phones was one of the biggest challenges.

Forgive the delay in responding. Itsosticky was designed from the outset to be an image sharing service with community potential, contrasted with image hosting, it's a service that…

You can drag and drop from other web pages or copy and paste via Ctrl-v. Might be a useful one-step alternative.

A new image sharing service Itsosticky is a brand new image sharing service with some ambition, just launched after a year of development. More info is available here https://itsos…

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Working to demonstrate the advantages in scaling down oversized fonts to offset transitions from local fonts to web fonts. A cap on the transfer speed offers some interesting insig…

View statistics for Font Combiner following some exposure on HN show upwards of 70% Linux and Mac. This probably isn't representative of the audience most fonts in use would be pre…

It seemed right to try to offer transparent comparisons for screenshots rather than cherry pick. Linux font rendering can vary a lot depending on how things are set up.

Forgive the slow response to some of the comments. Font Combiner's utility is intended to be as much in the facility to combine glyphs from more than one font and to adjust spacing…

I don't know if Google strip hinting, but that sounds broadly accurate. Font Combiner makes use of ttfautohint as part of hinting types B and C, with slight modifications where a s…