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For the love of ligatures
Wouldn’t the internet be a fancier place if ligatures were a more common sight? Now that I spend most of my waking days looking at a screen, when I actually come across a ligature, it’s downright sexy.
Just look at those curves – oh la la!
Of course you can render ligatures online by using hexidecimal code. But come on – who wants to go through all that trouble? Typing out six hard to memorize digits to render a single ligature certainly isn’t fast. It takes the fun right out of writing. I want a web-friendly keyboard shortcut or a ligature-friendly css style, or something of that nature. Maybe the gods of CSS3 will hear my plea.
And speaking of ligatures, the other day Kristina and I were chatting about a client project and she mused about what it would be like to have vertical ligatures. Vertical?!? That’s bold, friend. I’m not sure why or how you’d “go vertical” but I’m certainly intrigued.
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January 27th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Sorry Jen – even if the gods of CSS3 were listening, IE6 isn’t.