Typewriter font with ligatures?

**mwenz** · 22 January 2021, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

... I have to wonder, he is a youngish designer, if he even realizes that typewriters did not have ligatures or if he just automatically had ligatures enabled as a default setting. ...

Certain OpenType features are suppose to be enabled as a default per the OT Specification, standard ligatures being one such feature.

So, the question to me would be: Did the designer make a conscious choice to leave the feature turned on?

**gwpriester** · 22 January 2021, 04:16 PM

My guess is Mike, after looking at his photo, mid-30s maybe, the thought never occurred to him.

**haakoo** · 22 January 2021, 10:04 PM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sahre

**gwpriester** · 22 January 2021, 10:08 PM

His wife is no slouch either. She is a partner at Pentagram, one of the best design firms in the world. I bet she would know to disable ligatures if she were using a typewriter font.

**ss-kalm** · 23 January 2021, 03:20 PM

He's probably very flattered by "mid-30s" since he was born in 1964 - Making him 56-57.

**gwpriester** · 23 January 2021, 04:14 PM

Maybe he used an old photo of himself?

**haakoo** · 25 January 2021, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

His wife is no slouch either. She is a partner at Pentagram, one of the best design firms in the world. I bet she would know to disable ligatures if she were using a typewriter font.

Artistic freedom.