![]() If something looks like a typeface preview, it should not function as a button. It is completely a front end anti-pattern, I would say. Beneath each of these preview text lines, there are a few font subsetting options, with the default being to include only ASCII characters and no lookups. It turned out that the font style preview texts double as buttons of an accordion-like control. …until I accidentally clicked on one of the “previews”. ![]() I then messed around the available options in the customizer, but none of the visible options seem to make any difference. Still, it is incomprehensible since the default webfont kit and the customized one are obviously created by the same program. So it seems that the culprit is the customizer. Could it be the difference? I tried to use the customizer again, and whoops, it did not contain the lookups. I remember the difference between the newly downloaded webfont kit and the one I was using though: the latter was “customized” through the MyFonts webfont kit customizer. I then downloaded the Adagio Serif webfont kit again, and it does contain the OpenType lookups as well. Obviously, browsers cannot display the ligatures if the required metadata is not provided at all. I used fontforge to open both, and indeed, the former contains OpenType lookups, while the latter contains none. Then it came to me that maybe the desktop version of Adagio Serif is different from the webfont version. ![]() I tried various combinations, but to no avail. A helpful documentation can be found in the Mozilla website. There are lots of CSS options related to ligatures. It leads me to investigate why I don’t see ligatures in my website. Adagio Serif has a ligature for “fi”, as its style really asks for one. Why is there no ligature for “fi” in the site title, de finibus?Īnd for some time I thought the answer was: “I would like to, but Adagio Serif does not come with one.” Anyone interested in typography will probably ask me this question: ![]()
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