alexray

Joined 6 years ago

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Feb 27
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Comment · 5 days ago
I've been shocked at how often and how fast prices change for models. It's nice to have a place to find current pricing any time. I know the dev building this (and am a user), so wanted to share
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Did you use the "mean comment generator" to write this comment?
Comment · 1 year ago
What’s the use case you’re trying to solve for here?
Comment · 4 years ago
this looks so great! congrats on the launch!
Comment · 4 years ago
Hey HN, Alex and Ben here, and we wanted to share another web app we created recently.

Sweetfont is a tool to help you find fonts without having to know a lot about typography.

There are over a million fonts in existence - and over 1,400 on Google Fonts alone - and it's hard to filter through to find one that is a good fit for your project. Ben is a typography nerd and knows tons of obscure fonts (and was offended by my constant use of Google's Poppins). So, we decided to make a tool that would help normal people (like me) find the right fonts too.

For Sweetfont, we had designers assess every Google Font's "personality". We surface it through the sliders. In the future, we'd like to add fonts from other sources too.

Let me know what you think!

Comment · 4 years ago
Great idea!
Comment · 4 years ago
Good find -- we'll fix that!
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah, rereading the license, it looks like we shouldn't use images from there. We have already removed them from the list - thanks for the flag
Comment · 4 years ago
Once this becomes the next decacorn, we're going to get Ferdinand Z. M. B. K. M. O. A. B. L. von Habsburg-Lothringen to be our spokesman. Heck, Ferdinand -- if you're in the comments, you can be our spokesman now if you want
Comment · 4 years ago
That's a good point -- our goal is for everything on the site to be able to be used without any sort of attribution. I think it's that way now, but will go and double check everything we're using today
Comment · 4 years ago
That's a fair callout -- thanks. We will probably make the color a little less intense in the future, or at least give an option of muting it :)
Comment · 4 years ago
How do you imagine using it as a browser extension?

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