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Oct 1, 2020 4:02 AM UTC
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Font Issue

Why the lower case "f" and "i" joint together.
I'm using "Gilroy Font" and "Sofia Pro"

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    Dan Rodney
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    Oct 1, 2020 6:44 AM UTC

    Those are called ligatures, and some fonts have those specially designed characters. It's not a problem at all, it's how the font was designed. Not all fonts have them, but some well designed fonts do.

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    Dan Rodney
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    Dan RodneyCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    Oct 1, 2020 6:44 AM UTC

    Those are called ligatures, and some fonts have those specially designed characters. It's not a problem at all, it's how the font was designed. Not all fonts have them, but some well designed fonts do.

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    Feb 16, 2021 8:18 AM UTC

    Hi Dan,

    how can you turn ligatures off?

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    Dan Rodney
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    Feb 16, 2021 7:54 PM UTC

    There's no ligature setting in XD (advanced type controls would be nice). So the closet workaround I can think of would be to add a Character Spacing of 1 which will break them apart. Ideally that's done to just those 2 characters, because if you do it to all the chararacters you are adding a tiny amount of space across them all.

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    Earl.PatAuthor
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    Oct 1, 2020 4:07 AM UTC

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