Do ligatures improve readability ? When I ask this I am thinking of ff fl ... thinking as an article of faith you might say that certain ligatures ( assuming a ligature design that is not showy or attention getting ) ... question directly but they are ligature related. Ligatures in OpenType: Discretionary vs. Standard Usage of Ligatures in ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 25 Oct 2006 - 8:52am - 130 comments - 0 attachments

... with fontlab 4.6. the problem is, that the standard ligatures (fi, fl) doesnt apear in InDesignCS. I checked everything, ... other fonts generated with fontlab, they (the standard ligatures) all work. but not in that font. the strange thing is, if i ...

Forum topic - kingofcapearcona - 17 Apr 2005 - 3:14am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

Anyone know this one? Perhaps the ligatures are custom? ...

Forum topic - cuidado - 20 Nov 2008 - 7:54am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

I have a few urdu ligatures that I wanna kern automatically. Only problem is: I dont know how to ... ”Reyhan.otf”. Although he hasnt use many ligatures, still his kerning was good between words.... Thats why I am begging u professionals for some advice in kerning of several ligatures. I have following font editors installed: FontLab, FontCreator, ...

Forum topic - arifkarim - 20 Nov 2008 - 2:32pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... http://www.typophile.com/node/43879 ligatures in the past have ligatures in the past have either been stylistic, or to resolve the issues of ... character that looks cleaner. There are other ligatures that are more for the sake of evoking a certain feel, less practical ...

Blog entry - butifulstuf - 17 Oct 2008 - 5:01pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Lubalin always felt the ligatures of Avant Garde were misused, but I’ve not found any ... your eyes and your brain, you should be able to use these ligatures well enough without reading any “instructions”. This ... that is “how to correctly use Avant-Garde’s ligatures”, because in this essay the author very clearly explains that ...

Forum topic - pdxuser - 8 Aug 2008 - 5:40pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... heard that it’s made up of “ao”. These ligatures, or accented characters, are contained in the alphabet to describe a ... “visual”: Some About “visual”: Some ligatures excist purely to solve a visual problem. I understand why they ...

Forum topic - frode frank - 14 Mar 2008 - 1:35pm - 13 comments - 0 attachments

Thinking about Notan, Ligatures, and the kind of behavior we get from InDesign I was wondering if ... it isn’t a better idea to make fi ff & ffl ligatures ( etc etc ) out of two or three glyphs kerned into a ligature rather ... unless you mean fonts that really shouldn’t have f-ligatures to start with. In that case, I rename the ligature ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 30 May 2007 - 11:35am - 32 comments - 0 attachments

... a handful of (more-or-less accidental) discretionary ligatures in addition to the standards along the way and I was wondering if ... from ‘fi’ etc., they can’t be referred to as ‘true ligatures’ anymore. They are ‘stand-alone’ characters now. Ligatures ...

Forum topic - olho - 4 Apr 2008 - 9:16am - 24 comments - 0 attachments

I am working on some logo type and am looking for an it ligature. I believe it is fairly rare and the only one I have found so far is in the Mrs. Eaves family... (absolutely beautiful) Anyone out there know of any others? I am willing to create my own b ...

Forum topic - Bigelliot - 21 Nov 2008 - 9:38am - 4 comments - 0 attachments