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Re:Web Design is 95% Typography by yogsototh on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @06:26AM (#4542948)
Also, no ligature :/

I have ligature on my website by using:

    text-rendering: optimizelegibility
with Computer Modern.

For many technical reason, typography on the web is hard. I had written my though about it here (there are images, this is why I simply don't copy/paste):

http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Typography-and-the-W...

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Re:Web Design is 95% Typography by digitalengineer on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @10:30AM (#4543696)
Nice piece! Love it when someone cares about ligatures! I've actually had clients --big ones-- force me to remove "those crazy letters" in their layout. I couldn't educate them...

Hve you seen http://beta.typecastapp.com/ "Better web type without the hassle" If anyone is going to fix ligatures it's them.

Update: THEY HAVE!!! http://beta.typecastapp.com/blog/fancify-your-typography-wit...

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Re:Web Design is 95% Typography by jimktrains2 on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @08:58AM (#4543293)
I was always disappointed that TeX or LaTeX didn't become standard for the web over HTML.
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