Font Issue

[Earl.Pat]

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

[Earl.Pat]

[Dan Rodney · Accepted solution]

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.

[THIJS0D45]

Hi Dan,

how can you turn ligatures off?

[Dan Rodney]

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.

[THIJS0D45]

Thanks for the reply. Advanced typesetting would indeed be nice...

I've switched from TT Norms to TT Norms Pro. This typeface doesn't have the ligatures.

[dales72728251]

That worked! Thanks : )

[chrish76799451]

You can cheat it by adding a space and setting the type size to 0

[jamesr88397446]

Thanks! This is very helpful. Many of my clients don't like ligatures.