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 mo

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 subset omits character 'o'. Hinting and truetype instructions make little difference to OSX and others.