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Unrelated, but did anyone notice how the 'ff' ligature in "Warren Buffett" overrode the capitalization. What a weird edge case I've never thought of.

EDIT: Ahh, it looks like it uses a font-variant: all-small-caps without setting font-ligatures: none

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I hope you list "extraordinary attention to detail" on your CV!

Nice find. I'm guessing it's a bug in the font?

Yes, a well-engineered font should handle the interaction better -- probably the easiest approach would be to ensure that case-substitution subtables are ordered ahead of ligature subtables.

(Though as cobertos noted, the author could have worked around the font issue by more careful use of font variant properties in their CSS.)

It's not plain to me that ligatures might conflict with smallcaps. Certainly feels there's no good reason for that to be the case.

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