Normally I’d assume that the machine just knows how to make cursive letters and connects them one-by-one. But I’m perplexed by a detail with my name. My name is Ingrid, and on my hat, the tail of the d loops back up around and dots the lowercase i. How does it sense the letter i, which somehow changes the behavior of the letter d, and gets it to loop back around the exact distance to dot the i? Also I don’t believe my sisters hat has this effect and her name is Erica.
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Some fonts have ‘ligatures’, special glyphs for particular combinations of two letters. E.g. classically for ‘fi’, the dot of the i might be swallowed up by the end of the curve of the f.
It sounds like the font they use has a ligature for ‘id’.
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