I noticed today that when I type a word with the character pair fi
in it, the f
changes when the i
is typed to have a longer top and the dot above the i
is removed.
I was wondering if this occurrence has a name and, additionally, do fonts that support this functionality have a categorical name?
ffi
andff
ligatures. – Angew is no longer proud of SO Jul 14 '15 at 20:20f
also flows smoothly into the top serif (if present) of thei
in many fonts. – Random832 Jul 14 '15 at 21:43