Disabled Ligatures for Martel in the Main Text UPDATE

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Yech:

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So I disabled ligatures for all Typogrify filter formats (but left quotes and dashes).

From (sorry) Google’s AI:

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Sadly, the CSS suggestions fail.

Sort of amazing that a squillion-dollar corporation can’t optimize its performance for a “standard” feature, leading to a loss of legibility for readers, but here we are, in the era of Enshittification. There is possibly a post to be written on this, to make up for the poor example I set here:

Prokofieff was affluent, efficient, and influential

Maybe if I download Martel…

UPDATE Martel now hosted locally, but ligatures still not functional. Which makes sense, because the font preview of the TTF files on my local machine doesn’t show any.

UPDATE I replaced Martel with Crimson Pro, but with the same ugly results.

Firm

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