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Originally Posted by WillAdams
- no real italics
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Well, I only use fonts that do have italics version available, alongside the regular and bold and I have purchased an e-book reader that can use them.
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Originally Posted by WillAdams
- no nice ligatures / text hyphenation / justification
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I wonder how much ligatures affect reading speed.
I am sincerely curious.
Can you point me to a good article or a book that talks about ligatures in depth?
I suspect that ligatures evolved because it was impractical for typesetters to manually stack thin and tiny i after an f that has a kind of overhang.
I do not think that ligatures were developed for speed of reading. Just have a look at the oldest examples of fonts that did feature ligatures.
I have read a text recently that made use of the ct, st, ft, and other ligatures and each of those was a jolt that brought my eyes out of reading rhythm.