# Turning off ligatures / accessing Opentype typeface/fonts features

**URL:** <https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/turning-off-ligatures-accessing-opentype-typeface-fonts-features/1381>\
**Category:** General Help\
**Created:** [December 2, 2021, 7:26am UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/turning-off-ligatures-accessing-opentype-typeface-fonts-features/1381 "2021-12-02T07:26:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![nath](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/nath/32/2608_2.png) [@nath](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/nath)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 7:26am UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/turning-off-ligatures-accessing-opentype-typeface-fonts-features/1381/1 "2021-12-02T07:26:08Z")

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Hi All

Do you know if there is a way to access the Opentype features in evolve?

The font i’m using seems to be defaulting to using ligatures in particular the ‘fl’ which is not ideal for the client.

It would also me nice to be able to access alternate glyph sets, alternate ‘a’ for example.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![hbailey](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/hbailey/32/603_2.png) [@hbailey](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/hbailey)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 9:17am UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/turning-off-ligatures-accessing-opentype-typeface-fonts-features/1381/2 "2021-12-02T09:17:56Z")

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It might just be lack of tea this early, but I understand about half of those words 😃

What I can say though is that you upload your own font sets if you need something specific… [Fonts - Changing and Adding Your Own : Intellum](https://experience.intellum.com/student/collection/750644/path/951795/activity/1138123)

Does that help at all?

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**Author:** ![nath](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/nath/32/2608_2.png) [@nath](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/nath)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/turning-off-ligatures-accessing-opentype-typeface-fonts-features/1381/3 "2021-12-02T12:22:29Z")

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Hi @hbailey Apologies, I’ve read that back and it is a bit confusing, I’ve atttached a couple diagrams the show what i mean. 😃

Evolve seems to be defaulting to displaying the ligatures.

 ![Ligatures](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/evolveauthoring/original/1X/58ee6e1a8764cc37318621ef9179632eba91c2f6.png)  
 ![Stylistic alternates](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/evolveauthoring/original/1X/77cdcdb588bb4c27fa3247c40fbc9f7556b35602.png)

I can remove the ligtures in the web inspector using the `font-variant-ligatures` property.

More font-variant-ligatures info here:

> **[CSS font-variant-ligatures Property](https://www.w3docs.com/learn-css/css-font-variant-ligatures-property.html)**
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> The font-variant-ligatures property controls the ligatures on the font. See the values and try examples.

Hope that makes more sense? 🙂

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**Author:** ![hbailey](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/hbailey/32/603_2.png) [@hbailey](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/hbailey)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/turning-off-ligatures-accessing-opentype-typeface-fonts-features/1381/4 "2021-12-02T14:23:12Z")

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Thanks! I have learned!

I will pass this on to one of the devs who may know more about this.