Re: OT: Georgian road signs (Re: OT: Dvorak)

On 26/07/08 11:10:03, Eric Christopherson wrote:

> I've been annoyed lately to see a few fonts where the <fi> ligature
> is such that the hook of the <f> ends to the left of the <i>, so
> instead of the hook of the <f> and the dot of the <i> merging, the
> dot is just left out.
Oh indeed I can't stand this! The purpose of the fi ligature is to
avoid drawing attention to something that's a bit ugly; this kind of fi
ligature seems designed precisely to draw attention the fact that the
font designer/document creator was smart enough to know that fi
ligatures get used! (I'm also a bit ambivalent about fonts like
Palatino which have an fi ligature although they have no need for it,
but retain the dot. It adds nothing and takes nothing away, but I'm not
sure if this doesn't maybe cause it to take something away anyway...)

>I'm not certain, but I think I've also seen
> instances where the dot and the hook are left separate, but the dot
> is moved over to the left.
I'm not sure I've seen this. On the other hand I have seen some fonts
where the dot of the f and the end of the f's hook overlap so perfectly
that a ligature is automatically formed as long as there's proper
kerning.

--
Tristan.

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