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by gpvos 4042 days ago
Can we do away with those s-t ligatures please? They're visually disturbing and serve no purpose. In a font for reproducing ancient text, okay. But not in any modern text please.
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Aloisius 4042 days ago
I don't see an st ligature. I forced ligatures on and off on the Apple supplied font and see none (not even for th or fi):

http://i.imgur.com/O0jYcKF.png

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gpvos 4042 days ago
Oops, sorry. It seems the font got blocked somehow, and one of my fallback fonts apparently has them. Sorry again, that was a useless comment of mine.
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jamesdelaneyie 4042 days ago
They are decorative ligatures so they do serve no purpose other than visually disturbing you ;)
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