Ligatures not working in After Effects

[seb seb seba]

Hi,

I'm trying to use text with ligatures in After Effects, but it doesn't work. I have checked the box that says "Ligatures" in the Character Panel. I'm using the font FFF Acid Grotesk, that shows ligatures when used in Photoshop and other software. Copying + pasting the glyph from Photoshop into AE does not work.

Any ideas?

AE version 23.0 (Build 59)

macOS Ventura 13.2.1

[Bzelinsc]

Same here with Georgia. The ligatures are not showing even though I have the option enabled.
I solved this by pasting it from Windows Character Map. Go Bill Gates! 
Win 10 Pro
AE 23.4.0 (Build 53)

[ShiveringCactus]

What happens if... (and I'm guessing here as I don't have that font) you switch from Metrics to Optical,does that improve the situation?

[seb seb seba]

No, nothing changes. I just discovered that some ligatures work, but not all.
In the attached images, red is Photoshop and black is After Effects.

[markusGO]

Hello, same here...some (standard?) ligatures work, others (discretionary) won't  😞 while Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign have even dedicated panels, it's lacking in After Effects, despite having a checkbox in the type panel, saying "ligatures"...

The only workaround i know seems to be "moving" these ligatures within the font file itself (with a font editor) and of course using outlines, but that's a real pain in the ***. Hope there's someone at Adobe listening/reading...

AE 23.6.0 , btw

[Naim35998099ou1j]

Copy + paste the text directly from the text layer with ligatures from Photoshop into After Effects.

[Purbinder]

I just tested this and it works! 👍👍

[Markus34033346dxm6]

Still won't work with discretionary ligatures, only standard ones 😞 
To illustrate the matter - here an image of the character panel in Photoshop. Green marking (standard) works via copy & paste, but red marking (discretionary) still won't (AE 24.6.2):