#ligatures — Public Fediverse posts

Just noticed that @mc_wiki's Garamontio font [https://codeberg.org/m-casanova/Garamontio] — which I already considered excellent — has ligatures for "f" followed by an accented "i". The attached image (1) shows the usual "f" and "i" with an acute accent (with the usual contextual substitution disabled), (2) the default Garamontio contextual substitution of the "f" glyph with a narrower one, and (3) the ligature provided by character variant cv51 (examples are magnified 10pt text).

Ligatures (or even contextual substitutions) for this situation are absent from a lot of commercial fonts — I had to create ligatures of my own for Minion 3. And Garamontio is free under the OFL — thank you @mc_wiki!

#typography #font #ligatures #OFL

Making a font with 9,999 ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals

#Fonts #Ligatures #Monks

[via hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024585 ]

Last but not least, some of the most extravagant #alternate shapes and #ligatures contained in the Luperca typeface aren't novelties, they're rather ancient shapes gathered from a variety of inscriptional sources, mainly intended to save #writing space. Sometimes, to find something new, you just have to look at the forgotten traces of the past. I hope that you liked this presentation! (6/6)

One of the best looking coding font gets even better. #PragmataPro #NerdFont #CodingFont #Ligatures #Monospaced #FabrizioSchiavi https://fsd.it/2023/12/14/pragmata-pro-0-830-out-now/