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Ligatures. In a very few cases they are essential. Some well known ligatures are 'fi' and 'fl'. The inevitable need for a ligature is depending on the design of a font. Not every typeface will need a ligature for a 'fi' combination. But in some cases the dot of the 'i' is interfering with the 'f'. Get rid of all that annoying row but making a ligature, one glyph which represents two (or more) characters. Next to a functional aspect, there is an aesthetic aspect of ligatures. You could create a ligature for a 'st' combination, or maybe for 'nky' or 'ism'. Anything is possible. Admitting that also this is not the most urgent issue in type design, it's another obstacle on the road to perfection!
只有極少數的場合才需要用到連字。比較常見的連字有“fi”和“fl”。連字是否必不可少，取決于字體的設計。不是每種字體都需要"fi"的連字組合。但有些時候字母“i”上面的圓點會和前面的“f”相撞。一勞永逸的解決方案是做一個連字，用一個字符代替兩個（或更多的）字符。連字的出現(xiàn)的原因，除去功能上的需要，還有審美意義上的。你可以做一個“st”的連字組合，或是一個“nky”或“ism”。任何字符都是有可能的。這個章節(jié)同樣也不是學習字體設計最迫切需要的知識，但這是通向完美之路上另一道必須逾越的障礙。
（譯注：到今天為止，整個《字體設計基礎》系列文章就全部翻譯完了。了卻一樁心事。感謝大家一直以來的支持。）
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出處：藍色理想
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