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Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts

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Re: Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts

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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...

Much prefer the left and in fairness so far I've preferred the non-fontcombiner version on everything I've seen.

Re: Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts

#16

From 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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