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Can anyone summarize how this works?
by hahamrfunnyguy 4y ago
Can anyone summarize how this works?
- KhalPanda 4y agoRight on the home page... > How this s** works: Modern fonts can combine letters into a single ligature, usually for things like fi or fl but you can pick anything so we’ve done it for swears.
- breakingcups 4y agoThey are abusing Font Ligatures (https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/ligature https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/ligature), a feature that allows you to substitute one glyph in the place of two or more other glyphs combined if it looks more aesthetically pleasing. Also used for some other script features / rules.
- onion2k 4y agohttps://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/ligature https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/ligature
- dtgriscom 4y agoLigatures [0] are special glyphs which replace a series of letters. For instance, an "fl" is often replaced by a single glyph which looks far better than the individual glyphs. Scunthorpe Sans has ligatures defined for each nasty series of characters, but instead of replacing them with something more readable it replaces them with a black box. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)