July 2011
108 posts
On Typographic Ligatures
The most common ‘functional’ ligatures in English are ‘fi’, ‘ff’, ‘fl’, ‘ffi’ and ‘ffl’, while a type designer may choose to provide additional pairings like the purely decorative ‘st’, the archaic ‘ſb’, or even the extravagant ‘fffl’, employed solely in the German word Sauerstoffflasche, or ‘oxygen tank’.