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Ligature

Two or more letters drawn as one glyph, either because they collide otherwise or because the pair has always been set that way.

Ligature: fi, ff, fl, ffi and ffl of Gill Sans Bold as single sorts, the f's hood taking the i's dot, from a Monotype specimen.
The ligatures of Gill Sans Bold, tarrytown, photograph. CC BY 2.0. Cropped to the ligature line. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Ligature: the word finem in Caslon's Great Primer roman of 1734, its fi cast as one sort.
fi in Caslon's Great Primer roman, William Caslon.
Public domainPublic domain: A broadsheet printed by William Caslon about 1734; Caslon died in 1766 and the sheet is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain sheet as carrying no new copyright; this crop is the Great Primer roman line carrying the word finem.
Cropped to the word finem. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Ligature: the last line of Fournier's roman alphabet of 1766, W w, the ampersand, and the ct and long-s-t ligatures cast as single sorts.
Fournier's ct and st ligatures, 1766, Pierre-Simon Fournier, punchcutter and printer.
Public domainPublic domain: Printed in Paris in 1766 by Fournier, who died in 1768; out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful reproduction of a flat public-domain page as carrying no new copyright.
Cropped to the last line of the alphabet. Retrieved 2026-09-10.

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so nothing on a page of ours can ask for itsetting a ligature through CSS or through the font stack does nothing on any face this house shipsthere is no GSUB table in ANY of the 84 files, so the OpenType feature that would carry this cannot be reached at all: it is absent, not merely unused
what this entry therefore describesthe thing itself, not our version of itUNMEASURED against our own work, and said so rather than illustrated with a face that has none