Caps Mrs Eaves is an historical revival based on the design of Baskerville. In translating this classic to today's digital font technology, I focused on capturing the warmth and softness of letterpress printing that often occurrs due to the 'gain' of impression and ink spread. This font package contains Special Features . The Mrs Eaves Smart Ligatures package includes the LigatureMaker application. Mrs Eaves Just Ligatures Bold Ligatures have several functions in the setting of type.
Some ligatures are necessary to avoid the collision of particular letter combinations.
While some ligatures have evolved from particular language needs or the limitations of particular type technologies, others are artistic expressions that add a sense of customized uniqueness to the setting. In this way, the use of ligatures can emulate the contextual attention to detail of hand lettering reminiscent of the pre-print era. The joining of letters, of course, comes from our alphabet's roots in handwritten forms. When the alphabet was subsequently adapted to print in the form of movable type, it continued to include many ligatures. Eventually for the sake of expediency, all but the most necessary ligatures were dropped from the standard character set.