Check ligatures are consistent

[davelab6]

Observed behaviour

https://twitter.com/mjdye/status/1223762539768467456?s=19

So, I’m playing around with @EbenSorkin 's Gelasio on google fonts and have noticed ligatures are weirdly inconsistent. See screenshot. Is that a mistake or is that intentional? https://t.co/UaXivIpZ1z

Expected behaviour

Ligatures should be technically checked for existing, and visually checked for similarities. The latter might be more of an exq thing

[felipesanches]

could you please clarify "exq thing"?

[felipesanches]

Are we discussing here a proposal of a check specific to fi-fl-ffi-ffl ligatures?

Or are we talking bout a broader issue that involves a larger set of potential ligatures?

[felipesanches]

also...

• "checked for existing" sounds like something easily scriptable as long as we have a list of pairs to check against
• "visually checked for similarities" sounds like a task for actual human type-designers to do so it might be dashboard-level.

[davelab6]

Eqx, by sorkin type

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[EbenSorkin]

Yeah this could be an EQX pass fail question or possibly 2+ basic questions which build to a family consistency question. I'll have a look at this post Merriweather and revise the source. For some reason I don't recall if I made Gelasio into a VF. If I somehow didn't I'll do that as well.