a few words about ligatures

In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more letter-forms are joined as a single glyph. Ligatures usually replace consecutive characters sharing common components, and are part of a more general class of glyphs called “contextual forms” where the specific shape of a letter depends on context such as surrounding letters or proximity to the end of a line. from wikipedia

In other words, it is the orgasm of type. They make a girl happy while editing pages of techy-computerized nerd documents. Aren’t those forms sexy?

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2 Responses to “a few words about ligatures”

  • Natalie Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:21 am

    agreed. I wish I could use them more often. I never get to use letter orgasms. It’s such a typographical shame.

  • ~::Breathe::~ Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    Thanks for your sweet comment. I admire you so much. It seems like you and JJ are such a perfect match! Stop in anytime! (BTW I read about your struggles of late, don’t worry, if you stand your ground it really does get better! Um…at least until the next stage)

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