Comments on: Geneva’s “fi” ligature

By: eupator

eupator — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:29:28 +0000

It doesn’t really make sense to disable ligatures, since some (non-Latin) scripts require them to be displayed correctly. Complaining about buggy fonts to their makers and distributors seems to be something that Mozilla evangelism project could do, instead.

It would also help if Firefox made it easier to find which font does it use. (With ‘Properties’ of a text selection, for an example.)

By: Jesse Ruderman

Jesse Ruderman — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:02:56 +0000

Stefanik Gábor has filed bug 404971, “Disable ligatures for sans-serif fonts to fix readability regressions”.

By: Axel Hecht

Axel Hecht — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:58:43 +0000

Sounds like a good recommendation to Charlie to not use Geneva.

I was only able to reproduce this on the mac, too. Typing in something like “fine font” gives the ligature, and not that it’s the sexiest appearance in the world, with more reasonable context, reading it isn’t too tricky.

By: monk.e.boy

monk.e.boy — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:35:11 +0000

>> difference between its and it’s in his blog titles

haha, how embarrassing ;-) perhaps Firefox needs a spell checker and a grammar checker (with a talking paper clip?)

By: David Jones

David Jones — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:02:03 +0000

That is bad. But at that size no ligature is required. Is it really that Safari 3 doesn’t support ligatures, or is it that it had the good sense not to use them at that font size?

By: Stuart Parmenter

Stuart Parmenter — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:19:34 +0000

Too bad our font code can’t teach him the difference between its and it’s in his blog titles.