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by emily_b 10y ago
Thank you very much.
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by emily_b 10y ago
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 supplements, with a lot of other features. https://fon
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Show HN: Font Combiner Unicode Kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
6 points by emily_b 10y ago|3 comments
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by emily_b 10y ago
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-side resizing, which makes it fast to upload pics straight f
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Show HN: A new image sharing service(itsosticky.com)
3 points by emily_b 10y ago|1 comments
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by emily_b 11y ago
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 certainly use Imgur. I can't comment on what mi
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by emily_b 11y ago
Finding a way to provide viable (fast and high quality) image resizing on phones was one of the biggest challenges.
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by emily_b 11y ago
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 facilitates quick sharing of an image or screenshot wi
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by emily_b 11y ago
You can drag and drop from other web pages or copy and paste via Ctrl-v. Might be a useful one-step alternative.
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by emily_b 11y ago
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://itsosticky.com/about There are several things th
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Show HN: A new image sharing service(itsosticky.com)
42 points by emily_b 11y ago|36 comments
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How to make your own icon fonts(fontcombiner.com)
3 points by emily_b 12y ago|0 comments
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How to add icons from icon fonts to text fonts(fontcombiner.com)
1 points by emily_b 12y ago|0 comments
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New font-spacing algorithm(fontcombiner.com)
1 points by emily_b 12y ago|0 comments
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by emily_b 13y ago
#web
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by emily_b 13y ago
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 insight.
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New font scaling techniques offset web font 'FOUT' problems(fontcombiner.com)
2 points by emily_b 13y ago|1 comments
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A study into dedicated bold and italic web fonts(fontcombiner.com)
2 points by emily_b 13y ago|0 comments
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Experimental kerning for web fonts(fontcombiner.com)
2 points by emily_b 13y ago|0 comments
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by emily_b 13y ago
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 presented to. If you're interested in the differenc
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by emily_b 13y ago
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.
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by emily_b 13y ago
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 characteristics and hinting to taste, along with scal
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by emily_b 13y ago
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 true
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Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts(fontcombiner.com)
85 points by emily_b 13y ago|44 comments