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Earl.Pat
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October 1, 2020
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Font Issue

  • October 1, 2020
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Why the lower case "f" and "i" joint together.
I'm using "Gilroy Font" and "Sofia Pro"

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    Correct answer Dan Rodney

    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
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    October 1, 2020

    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.

    — Adobe Certified Expert & Instructor at Noble Desktop | Web Developer, Designer, InDesign Scriptor
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    THIJS0D45
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    February 16, 2021

    Hi Dan,

    how can you turn ligatures off?

    Dan Rodney
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    Dan RodneyCommunity Expert
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    February 16, 2021

    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.

    — Adobe Certified Expert & Instructor at Noble Desktop | Web Developer, Designer, InDesign Scriptor
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