[floatrock]

It's disturbing that the landing page does not mention at all what charity procedes go to. You need to go to the very bottom of the About page to finally find it's for http://www.unhcr.org

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.

[dafeld]

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.