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Originally Posted by rtiangha
Weird that Rakuten Serif has no ligatures but Rakuten Sans does. Although that might be a bug with fontdrop too as maybe the Small Figures feature of Rakuten Serif Regular is throwing things off (scanning the Bold version shows 44 ligatures and no Small Figures, so I'm leaning towards fontdrop bug, I think. Either that, or there really is something wrong with the Regular version of the font).
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I took a look at Rakuten Serif with FontForge and it does show ligatures.
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I think the problem with RakutenSerif Regular may be not so much that the standard ligature glyphs are missing but that it does not contain any OpenType Layout tables (GPOS, GSUB) to instruct the font how to use them. See attached screenshot comparing features of Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic.
Someone who understands all this technical font innards stuff may be able to correct it but unfortunately I wouldn't know where to start. If Kobo paid a license fee for these maybe they should ask for a discount until they get their missing Regular tables back
