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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
No, the ligatures do not work. I read after posting last night and ffi doesn't work. Neither does fl or any of the other ones I know to look for.
As proof, see the attached images of the word 'insufficient' displayed in Rakuten Serif, Rakuten Sans (someone mentioned ligatures work there, they don't) Literata Book and Bookerly.
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I think you may have reached a wrong conclusion from those images. Not all fonts have 'ffi' ligatures which
- merge the dot on the 'i' into the second 'f'
- display the second 'f' taller than the first 'f'
Some fonts have
"meh" ligatures which don't look much different from the standard component chars. Rakuten Serif has
"meh" ligatures (just my opinion, of course
) See screenshot from the Regular file (unicode fb00-fb04) as displayed by the FontDrop! site. The ligatures in the Bold font file look very similar (other than the weight).