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csallen 20 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A messy experiment that changed how I think about ...

I was wondering the same thing. That doesn't seem to happen in the Lato font on Google Fonts:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato?preview.text=Reaction...

EDIT: It's called ligatures: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-varian.... The CSS for headings on this site turns on some extra ligatures.

jfk13 20 days ago [–]

Specifically, `font-variant-ligatures: discretionary-ligatures` enables this.

(So does `font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1`, which is the low-level equivalent; the site includes both.)

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