Disable font ligatures

[silverwind]

Some fonts like Roboto autmatically form ligatures but I think they make text harder to read and should be avoided.

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[zeripath]

heh so this is where I would have to disagree. I much prefer ligatures in text.

[silverwind]

I guess this will be a controversial one. I hate them 😉.

That 'fl' could be mistaken for a A for people with bad sight. Also, I think I've never seen a ligature on github.com but I guess that's because system fonts generally don't ligature.

[lafriks]

@silverwind for me in github actually in your comment fl are shown with ligature :)

[CirnoT]

No ligature on GitHub here; are you using macOS by any chance?

[lafriks]

Android :)

[silverwind]

Yeah, I think Roboto is the only system-level font that forms ligatures by default.

BTW, I'm now using a userstyle to disable ligatures on all sites 😉

[silverwind]

Doesn't look like this will gain enough acceptance.