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		late2part on March 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Levels of Technical Leadership What's with the unique font? e.g. "sp" and "ct"

whoisburbansky on March 16, 2022 [–]

They're called ligatures [1].

Congratulations, you're one of today's lucky 10,000! [2]

1. https://www.thoughtco.com/ligature-in-typography-1078102

2. https://xkcd.com/1053/

wmf on March 17, 2022 | [–]

Those are some really archaic and distracting ligatures though.

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