@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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@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
Coincidentally, I looked up the ct and st ligatures in the Linux Libertine font-face just a week or two ago, but it made no mention of the ch ligature. I read some theories on why these exist, but it appears to be stylistic rather than pronunciation-related.
I'm somewhat limited in my font knowledge but "fi" and "th" ligatures make sense to me. However "ch" and "st" are seem strange. I don't understand *why* you'd want ligatures for those
I believe just because you think they look nice or you want to evoke certain emotions. This is my go-to font to demonstrate more interesting discretionary ligatures: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/itc/avant-garde-gothic/ …pic.twitter.com/oiUGXLX98H
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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