@mwichary Have you seen these types of ligatures before? Totally new to me. The CSS is marked with:
font-variant-ligatures: discretionary-ligatures;
Hard to find the actual font, the CSS is a bit complex for mepic.twitter.com/i9xZYb7LpW
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These are not “functional” ligatures that solve a problem of overlapping ink, they rather try to answer a question “can we connect those two glyphs in some new, interesting way?”
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