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Font Issue

New Here ,
Sep 30, 2020 Sep 30, 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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Community Expert , Sep 30, 2020 Sep 30, 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.

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Sep 30, 2020 Sep 30, 2020

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Sep 30, 2020 Sep 30, 2020

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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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New Here ,
Feb 16, 2021 Feb 16, 2021

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Hi Dan,

how can you turn ligatures off?

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Feb 16, 2021 Feb 16, 2021

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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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New Here ,
Feb 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021

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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.

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New Here ,
May 06, 2021 May 06, 2021

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That worked! Thanks : )

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New Here ,
Feb 22, 2022 Feb 22, 2022

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

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Aug 26, 2022 Aug 26, 2022

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

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