Quick question - common fonts with lowercase qu ligature?
  • JonathanKKJonathanKK
    Posts: 542
    Does anyone know off the top of their head, what common font(s) would have a lowercase "qu" ligature? I also need it to have "st", but that seems more common.

    [Don't waste time on the question, but if you have an easy answer, I will appreciate it.]
  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,703
    st U+FB06
    st

    Baskerville, Geneva, Hoefler, Palatino, Apple Chancery

    Have not been able to find a unicode for qu
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 1,939
    EB Garamond (both the original and Pardo versions have the st ligature), which I use for my chant scores and psalmody.

    I don’t think a “qu” ligature would exist outside of italics (and the EB Garamond documentation is bad, one of its flaws, so I can’t really tell what’s available at the moment)

    I hate the punctuation of Requiem (from Hoefler), and I strongly considered using it as it’s a pro font with appropriate documentation. (The name was appealing for obvious reasons.) It too has the appropriate historical ligatures if I’m not mistaken.
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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,148
    Linux Libertine G
    Qu ligature: U+E048 (also in Libertine Display G)
    Caps/smallcaps Qu ligature: U+E093
    Caps/smallcaps qu ligature: U+E094


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  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,369
    Lowercase qu ligatures exist, but where?
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  • ServiamScores
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    Tbh, I suspect that for some fonts it is not an actual ligature, but merely a result of nicely crafted tucking indexes. Well-developed fonts have LUTs with spacing instructions for each combination of letters. The end result can be what appear as ligatures but aren’t in the formal sense. (Conversely, I’m sure some fonts DO have this as a selectable ligature too.)
  • francis
    Posts: 10,668
    Another option is to use a font app and create your own ligature and install it into one of your own font sets. This requires knowing how to use vectors (Bézier curves and line tools)

    https://youtu.be/-xkDXUycU80
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