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Originally posted by Kakaze
I actually know about it because of you. Remember we had a discussion about it one day, I had always assumed it was the Beta symbol, which is basically how it's treated now anyway, but I figured it wasn't right, especially after you told me it was pronounced as a sharp S. So, I went looking and found out it was a ligature. Since then I have become very interested in ligatures, love them, and typography in general. Maybe I'll dedicate my first typeface to you.
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respect for keeping it in mind and finsing out more about it, then
ligatures are often neglected by "modern" typograhie, which is sad, really.
i wish i had been accepted at university for design, i could have become a great typographer, but hey...wasn't meant to be. so there..