Reshuffle Note: This article is likely to undergo a large number of changes, but when these will come I don’t know.
This is a list of ligatures that I’ve put together. Note that this is not a “complete” list of ligatures or even a “correct” list or a list of “officially recognised” ligatures. This is just a list that I thought would be fun.
When I finally write Stroke Order for Various things this article may prove useful.
I include pictures of what these ligatures would look like, which I created by playing around with letters from IPAGothic (sans-serif) and IPAMincho (serif). I used to use Arial, but I learned these two were apparently Public Domain, meaning I’m in less of a “legal gray zone” than before.
I spent more time on some than others. If I had the motivation, I’d probably spend way more time to get them all right (and I’d probably make my own font).
This is mostly just a list of ones I thought would make good ligatures. The pictures exist as a sort of visual aide.
The capital and lowercase versions already existed in the base font, which I assume is because they’re considered distinct letters, rather than ligatures.
The rest I made myself.
Mincho/Serif Versions
Gothic/Sans-Serif Versions
Below are listed ligatures that use the “long s” - ſ. This character was created from the f character, without the line in the middle.
So far, it’s lower-case only, because I don’t understand the upper-case version just yet.
Mincho/Serif Versions
Gothic/Sans-Serif Versions