#ProTip: When using letter-spacing != 0, disable ligatures through font-feature-settings. Otherwise this happens.
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@LeaVerou That should happen automatically per dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text/#l… . Do you know if bugs are on file?
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@davidbaron Spec says “optional” ligatures, so only applies if font-variant-ligatures etc hasn’t turned them on.
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Replying to @LeaVerou
@LeaVerou I read that as meaning ligatures for English as opposed to ligatures for Arabic.

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@davidbaron In my testing, Gecko uses a ligature even with letter-spacing, if ligatures have been enabled explicitly.
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@LeaVerou Well, font-feature-settings is a very low-level control; not sure I'd expect that with dev.w3.org/csswg/css-fonts/#…
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@davidbaron But yeah, “optional” there was a bit confusing to me.
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@davidbaron But in another part of css3-fonts, it says “Which ligatures are discretionary *or optional* is decided by the type designer”
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