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by njacobs5074 1586 days ago
Sympathize with all the comments about the horrific web page.

More concretely, is it too much to expect that fonts have ligature support by default? I get it that certain fonts, for historical and aesthetic reasons do not support them.

For me, having ligatures, especially in a fixed width font I'm going to use for coding, is a deal-breaker.

YMMV

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I'm confused by your comment. You ask for one thing in one sentence, and then you say the complete opposite in the next.
My point was that IBM Plex, as a recent font, is not bound by historical traditions or practices regarding the use of ligatures in the font.

Sorry for the confusion.