Tell HN: Help funding (web)font autohinting project

This is a big deal.

Seeing this project to its completion would ultimately lead to a far greater adoption of advanced web typography and a better looking web in general. See [0] for the original announcement on Typophile and the discussion that follows.

As you may or may not know, there is a big issue with how bad a lot of fonts look in Windows-based browsers and this project is meant to address this issue by automating and simplifying the process of font hinting [1], which is essential to making a font render decently on Windows.

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[0] http://typophile.com/node/84404

[1] http://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting

What happens if the $30,000 goal isn't met? Does everyone who contributed lose their money?