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My great fear is they will become so popular that the option to disable them will be forgotten. I can’t stand the ligatures that noticeably change and merge the
by jasonthorsness 1y ago
My great fear is they will become so popular that the option to disable them will be forgotten. I can’t stand the ligatures that noticeably change and merge the glyphs.
- wbl 1y agoHave you ever read a book typeset without them? Imagine a dot in fig where the loop of the f conflicts.
- jasonthorsness 1y agoThose historical use cases are fine and important, the problem ones are the ones in monospace fonts that change <= to ≤ and that sort of thing, or even crazier abuses like shown here.
- toast0 1y agoI like the dotted i in fig, thank you. Not a big fan of underlines that don't cross descendeds either.