This is a weird one. When using the Bodoni font, if you use an A and E character together, they combine into a single “Æ” character. I assume this is not intentional. It’s messing up some of my text. This is the first time I’ve used this font, so I have no idea how long it has been doing this.
Examples:
“Aero”
“aero”
Using latest version of Studio as of this post (0.348.1.228302) on Windows 10.
Looks like the creator of the font added “ae” as a ligature. This is intentional, but probably not desired. For a workaround try adding a zero-width character (such as the zero-width space) between the letters.
Yeah, this is a ligature, which is an intentional glyph created by the font designer which merges two letters together. AE/ae is a fairly archaic one, which makes sense given Bodoni’s purpose as looking slightly “old-timey”. More common ligatures include “fi” and “ff” which you may have noticed in the other fonts like Source Sans.
It’s probably been doing it ever since we enabled the new typesetting pipeline, which supports features such as these. We currently don’t expose any of the feature flags to allow you to control whether these are enabled or to switch on various stylistic variations, but I’d like to someday.
Interesting. Thanks for the response!
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