Disclaimer! Work In Progress! See source code. I recently read this wonderful blog post about using 17th Century Dutch fonts on the web. And, because I'm an idiot, I decided to try and build something similar using Shakespeare's first folio as a template. Now, before setting off on a journey, it is worth seeing if [...]

I’ve built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome.

  • edent@open-source.socialOP
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    11 months ago

    Both! Unicode has some support for as-is ligatures. For example fi is U+FB01.

    Modern fonts can also use self-defined ligatures. That’s how fonts like https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/

    So my plan is (eventually) to add in ligatures where Unicode has defined them - and automatically replace typed text with self-defined ligatures where it doesn’t.