No 1's to compare against upper case "I" and lower case "l."
No 0's to compare against upper case "O."
I don't see any differences.
Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts
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Re: Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts
#42Some 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...
If you're on Linux, you might already have the Ubuntu font, and if so will get better results using it. In addition, Ubuntu is likely a decent font, where this will drive the most improvements is in fonts of single weights designed for a fixed size and not easily resized from body text to headline or display to body.
Re: Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts
#43Some 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...
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.
Re: Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts
#44Demo didn't show diff for me. (OSX Chrome)
But the actual font-combiner tool seems to be great, I can create my own font combining few fonts. Which is nice.
Re: Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts
#45Great project! Web designers need absolute control over charset and font size (load), kerning, word and letter spacing, etc. Support for OpenType features [1] would be a dearly needed addition. Editing/tweaking of glyph shapes [2] would make this tool really into an in-browser font editor.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typographic_features [2] Check nodebox.github.io/opentype.js/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6459778)
Re: Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts
#46View 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 presented to. If you're interested in the differences, do try a test in Windows on a browser without DirectWrite.
This is a screenshot showing Windows 7 and Chrome 30: http://i.imgur.com/WBbUIFi.png
