Thread: Ligature love?
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Old 07-06-2020, 11:23 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by shalym View Post
I guess I don't understand what a ligature is? Is it just squishing letters together? I just did a search for the word "official" in the book I'm reading on my Kobo Aura HD, and it definitely looks to me as if the "ff" is squished together, although the dot over the "i" does not blend into the top of the "f" (which, not that I look at it, I don't really like, anyway). The book is in kepub format, and I'm reading it using the Gill Sans font. Am I misunderstanding the problem?

Shari
If You want to see on Your Kobo the effect of ligatures read a Kepub (no ligatures) and a Epub (ligatures) using for example the font embedded in the firmware Caecilia or Amasis and checking fi ffi fl ecc. To see better the difference You can increment the size of the font.

IMHO Amasis is much better with ligatures but can be read also without them while Caecilia without ligatures is very bad.

Not all fonts have ligatures, I could be wrong but as I can check from what I see Gill Sans has no ligatures.

Last edited by ps67; 07-06-2020 at 11:43 AM.
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