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Trinite f-ligatures
Posted by fredrik.fabrikk in
19 Apr 2006 — 12:14am
19 Apr 2006 — 12:14am
I'm considering to buy the font Trinité (No. 2) from Enschedé (http://www.teff.nl/fonts/trinite/trinite.html), but as far as I can see it has no fi (or other f-) ligature(s). I find this very strange, since I've seen examples of Trinité in use with the fi- and fl-ligatures. The other fonts from Enschedé seems to have several f-ligatures.
Does anyone have a point of view on this? Thank you!
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19 Apr 2006 — 2:39am
There is no need for separate ligatures in Trinité.
The f seamlessy closes up to the i, j, l, h, k and b
if the glyphs are set without letterspacing.
19 Apr 2006 — 2:41am
I tought Trinité was so well designed that it didn't need any ligatures. With the n°2 the stem of the lowercase f always covers the point of the i.
You can see it clearly on the sample sheet (http://www.teff.nl/fonts/trinite/pdf/trinite_a3_print-600.pdf).
19 Apr 2006 — 2:41am
too slow :(
19 Apr 2006 — 4:54am
With the n°2 the stem of the lowercase f always covers the point of the i.
So don't use it to typeset Turkish :)
19 Apr 2006 — 10:36am
Thank you very much! That's all I needed to know.