Ligature (writing)
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ligature-writing-189-10933380
title:
Ligature (writing)
text:
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph. Examples are the characters ⟨æ⟩ and ⟨œ⟩ used in English and French, in which the letters ⟨a⟩ and ⟨e⟩ are joined for the first ligature and the letters ⟨o⟩ and ⟨e⟩ are joined for the second ligature. For stylistic and legibility reasons, ⟨f⟩ and ⟨i⟩ are often merged to create ⟨fi⟩; the same is true of ⟨s⟩ and ⟨t⟩ to create ⟨st⟩. The common ampersand, ⟨&⟩, developed from a ligature
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Glyph combining two or more letterforms
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)
date created:
2001-12-08T16:33:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T06:52:48Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Typographic_ligature_st.png","width":1156,"height":1325}
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