Re:Five weights monospaced typeface for the benefit of chari...
by dafeld on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:46PM
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It's a leap of faith, most definitely, and maybe a bit shady when viewed from an outsiders perspective. Just give money to a stranger? Yes. Shady indeed, I agree.
But then again, if you chose to pay for it, which is your choice - you could download it for free - you actually get a font in five weights that has taken me a lot of time to craft.
It's your choice. But you can trust me. It's the Internet - people wouldn't lie on the internet, no?
And - I'll be the first to agree that this project needs more credibility and/or third-party involvement. I've already gotten the ball rolling on some partnerships with third parties for the future. Getting Hacker News'd wasn't even on my horizon. Superexciting! I was expecting friends and family to support this, like on my other design/charity project that I mention and link to on the about page.
The donation is also done in a sketchy way. Also near the bottom of the About page:
> How does this charity thing work?
> So far I'm using a solution that means I get payments sent to me to my Paypal and I personally make the donations to charities. I've chosen this way because it's easy.
In other words, you're paypal'ing money to a stranger and hope that the money makes it's way to charity
To the author's defense, he does have a "Are you to be trusted?" section that acknowledges this. The idea of a pay-what-you-like-for-charity-on-my-side-project idea is neat, but you need some degree of credibility or third-party to make it work. The next side project should be integrating against something that guarantees the promise of the donations.