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		RobotToaster on Oct 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to legally pirate every font This doesn't account for optional ligatures in OTF fonts. I think it may not work on svg-otf fonts, since they can have colour, line thickness, etc.

gwern on Oct 11, 2023 [–]

Why wouldn't the ligatures show up in images online? Someone's going to screenshot the alternatives at some point - the specimen, if nothing else. (And if they never show up and so can't be traced, then they couldn't've been all that important.)

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