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Yes, and also ligatures, serif fonts love ligatures...

• PaulHoule 4y ago
  Another complaint I have is that if you look really close at most typefaces the letters and numbers seem to not just not come from the same typeface but not even from the same planet.
• dhosek 4y ago
  Which are (a) not unique to serifed faces (the original Avant-Garde famously was full of discretionary ligatures) and not necessarily ideal for serifed faces. Many typefaces designed for Linotype hot metal look decidedly worse with ligatures than without because the f could not have any overhang so if you had something like fifty, the two fs looked bizarre in conjunction. My go-to type for demonstrating this problem was Trump Mediaeval but sometime in the transition from Type 1 to Opentype, the type gnomes at Linotype saw the obvious issue here and replaced the ugly fi ligature with a logotype with fi without the ligature (the logotype existing more for the sake of documents which might have manually specified fi rather than fi (I’m curious to see whether the difference is visible when this gets translated into its presentation form)).