Traditionally ligatures have been about abbreviation or aesthetics, not weird approximations in character sets: see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_

Traditionally ligatures have been about abbreviation or aesthetics, not weird approximations in character sets: see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature E.g. when I enable ligatures in Pillars of Eternity, it just makes all the prose look gorgeous.