Comment by maratc
2 hours ago
I went to research your examples with Google, and interestingly enough, it now thinks that it's a "classic textbook example" while citing one source — this comment of yours (20 min old at the time):
> In typography, ligatures should be used in "truffle" but should not be used in "cufflink."
> This specific pair of words is a classic textbook example used by typographers and software developers to demonstrate the limitations of basic, automated font-rendering rules.
What a world to live in.
On the same point of yours, bad two-letter ligatures also exist: surfing (fi), selfless (fl), halftime (ft), etc. "Swordfish" is fine but "dwarfish" is not.
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