# Removing ligatures from website pages

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/removing-ligatures-from-website-pages/5927>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [March 19, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/removing-ligatures-from-website-pages/5927 "2016-03-19T14:40:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jeffreyturner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jeffreyturner](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jeffreyturner)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/removing-ligatures-from-website-pages/5927/1 "2016-03-19T14:40:28Z")

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When adding a text block to my page (and even after adding 2px spacing to the text) I automatically get a ligature for the letters “ff”. I have tried adding CSS coding to remove the ligature feature by clicking on the “wrench”, then clicking on CSS and adding the following coding: -webkit-font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;

The ligatures still appear. Other than creating a jpeg using Illustrator and placing the text in as an image, does anyone know how to solve this issue?

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**Author:** ![peterdanckwerts](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/peterdanckwerts/32/22443_2.png) [@peterdanckwerts](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/peterdanckwerts)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/removing-ligatures-from-website-pages/5927/2 "2016-03-19T15:46:24Z")

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I can’t imagine what you have against ligatures, but the on way you can solve this, I think, is to use a font which has no ligatures.

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**Author:** ![jeffreyturner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jeffreyturner](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jeffreyturner)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/removing-ligatures-from-website-pages/5927/3 "2016-03-19T16:34:07Z")

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Ligatures are wonderful, unless you are spacing out your type for design purposes! In Adobe Illustrator, there is an option to release ligatures from your text. I would hate to have design an entire site based in a “ligature free” font.

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**Author:** ![peterdanckwerts](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/peterdanckwerts/32/22443_2.png) [@peterdanckwerts](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/peterdanckwerts)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/removing-ligatures-from-website-pages/5927/4 "2016-03-20T18:19:42Z")

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Letter spacing, other than of capitals, is despised by typographers because they think it is very ugly. I appreciate that this is a matter of opinion but I agree with them.