Some rendering screenshots would help. I'm viewing this on my iPad and the only difference I see is bad kerning in the examples on the right.
Same here (OS X, Safari). It doesn't look much better in the demos either. Their demos include some truly horrific examples, like Linux, Firefox 24, Ubuntu: http://fontcombiner.com/docs/media/demo/linux_firefox_ubuntu...
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Much prefer the left and in fairness so far I've preferred the non-fontcombiner version on everything I've seen.
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#12On linux with slight hinting enabled, and I see no discernable difference between the examples.
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#13On my MacBook Air, the original version looks much better than the "improved".
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#14Big improvements on Windows 7 / Chrome.
Same here.
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#15Some rendering screenshots would help. I'm viewing this on my iPad and the only difference I see is bad kerning in the examples on the right.
Same here. Here's a gif to illustrate: http://i.imgur.com/3AmIB8Z.gif
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#16From the explanation beneath "How is this possible": > The Font Combiner application uses a couple of different techniques to overhaul fonts. All glyph forms are extracted from vectors present in the original fonts and scaled to size where appropriate, the vertical metrics are recalculated from scratch, and spacing and fresh automated hinting are applied to the result. Now, I don't know a lot about the gory details o…
I can't imagine that it would do better than carefully designed and hinted font. But I doubt such care is given to all fonts.
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#17They look mostly the same to me on a 30" screen (chrome on linux). Slightly different kerning is all I can really tell. Certainly no significant difference.
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#18I notice improvements on windows8/chrome on the 2nd one. First one is about the same. I've always hated how bad web fonts can look on chrome on windows and why they have yet to resolve the issue.
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#19So essentially you want to deliver the font combiner version to Windows/Chrome and the normal version to everyone else.
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#20Windows 7, Firefox 25 with no hardware acceleration.