fl / fi ligatures
- Started
- Last post
- 5 Responses
- colin_s
I'm typesetting a personal project and was pretty intent on using starling - https://store.typenetwork.com/fo… - and as I'm setting it, i see that strangely the fl ligature looks very much like an fi ligature. there IS an fl ligature that i can insert / replace via the glyphs menu, although it looks rather awkward. examples:
fl default
fl replaced
So I'll deal with the problem on my own, but has anyone else encountered this before? I don't know if it's part of how the type was compiled, an indesign thing, or if that is the intentional ligature for fl and it's a style thing.
- Nairn0
Not sure what platform you're on, but view it in either a font-viewer or editor and see what the ligatures look like au naturelle?
Any time these days I want a font to do something it wasn't supposed to I open up FontForge and start fucking with it in there.
Obviously that's not a great solution if the font needs to be used by more people than just yourself (licensing, etc)
- uan0
did you check out the opentype options for ligatures?
- VectorMasked0
- that's what i thought too! the fl looks weird as shitcolin_s
- MrT1
That first one is fi, surely. Looks like an error if that’s the default replacement for fl.
- VectorMasked0
If you do actually feel there is an issue with the typeface contact the foundry. They do make mistakes.
I once contacted a larger foundry I am not naming, and admitted the error and quickly fixed it and sent us the fixed OTF files.