The coding logic is: If f + i, replace both with fi ligature.
Standard ligatures go in the LIGA feature, optional ones often go in the DLIG feature. This can be two characters like Co or entire words (like Cola) or phrases (like Coca-Cola). You replace certain strings with ligatures. Taking your Coca-Cola example, there are two ways to achieve this effect: In general: you need to use OpenType features to make “intelligent” automatic replacements. Maybe that's not the best example, but you get the idea. But it can't really recreate the original because the original has two different "C" glyphs. But how?įor example, this font is designed to look like the one from the iconic Coca Cola logo. Anyway I'd like to create a new font of my own, or perhaps modify an existing one to utilize alternate glyphs in the same way. Maybe this isn't uncommon, but it's the first time I've seen it. In Adobe Illustrator, the alternates pop up as you type, and you get to pick & choose with the mouse. So, the first and last letter of each word might have elaborate flourishes or some fancy thing like that. It also seemed to prefer a particular glyph variant at word boundaries. So if you type the uppercase letter 'A' (or lowercase 'a', or whatever) four times in a row, it could appear as four similar, but slightly different (or sometimes quite different) variations. And I guess to make it look more convincing, each letter was scanned/traced several times. Like someone scanned and traced a sample of their own handwriting. I used a font recently that had alternate glyphs assigned to each character.
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