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[–] red@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Studies show that ligatures improve readability, but I acknowledge that it's likely untrue for outliers.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

For monospace fonts? I've heard of such research for proportional fonts, where ligatures definitely make sense to me. But yeah, I wouldn't assume such research to automatically translate to monospace.