Member inc… Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Is there a typeface with a nice rf ligature? I actually can't recall ever seeing rf paired together. Link to comment
Member Geo… Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 I can't think of a good reason to have such a ligature. Link to comment
Member bri… Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Serf. And no I don't think there is one. Maybe in a script font. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 One reason to have a ligature is the same as one reason to have serifs. hhp Link to comment
Member bri… Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 @hrant Decoration? Better "word image"? Link to comment
Member dbe… Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Not sure what nice is but this family's got them. Link to comment
Member rs_… Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 At least in Spanish you can use it in words such as Orfeo, Surfeo, Garfio, Morfeo. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Just don't use it to set Barſtow. hhp Link to comment
Member old… Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Kerf, nerf, turf and, lest we forget, Ferd Burfle... Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Everybody’s gone surfin’… Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Really, an rf lig? Barf! ;-) Link to comment
Member Jam… Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Not a ligature per se, but in the project I'm working on at the moment, I've added contextual alternates for "rf" ant "rt" Link to comment
Member Ber… Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 A connected /rf/ would be better, imo. At least makes for better spacing. Link to comment
Member dbe… Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 @Hrant "Bingo on #2." Wonderful. And what do you think the "rules" should be for ligating to better word shapes? @Sii "Really, an rf lig? Barf! ;-)" Butterfly head, it's on a billion windows machines, should we recall it? @BV "At least makes for better spacing." Bert, there's and rt lig too ;) Link to comment
Member hra… Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 I once gave a talk in Thessaloniki about the hidden benefits of ligation, including aiding readability. At least one person though thinks that talk was crap. :-) But he's (still) a friend. I haven't thought it all through, but I think the best basis would be to go through the lexicon of a given language and for word pairs (or more generally, sets) that have convergent boumas use ligation to diverge them. But it has to be consistent. For example in English, for "guest" and "quest" the latter might get an "st" ligature but the former not. hhp Link to comment
Member Jam… Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 @BV "At least makes for better spacing." Bert, there's and rt lig too ;) ? The spacing on that one is still a mess. I'm not sure what I plan on doing with it. Link to comment
Member bri… Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 For example in English, for "guest" and "quest" the latter might get an "st" ligature but the former not. Interesting idea. Wouldn't that be distracting in some cases, at least at first. While that would change the word shape for "quest" in this case, perhaps for better recognition, but it would only really work if everyone made the same choice. What if one designer thought the former should it? I'm not arguing that it wouldn't improve things, but it would only to well if it were adopted by many people. Link to comment
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