Ligatures in F1 Black

Summary

The ligature specimen repeated for F1 Black, the heaviest weight: a left column of copy and a field of ghosted grey words with the joined ligature pairs in solid black.

Visual description

Cream (#F4F0E8) ground, same running header and rounded corner bracket; "Ligatures" centre with sub-label "F1 Black" and page "102". The left column repeats the ligature explanation. The lower field shows very heavy F1 Black words ("MERCEDES", "VERSTAPPEN", "GRAND", "PUNCTURE", "RED", "Mercedes", "Ferrari", "Massa", "Section", "Botta") bleeding off the right edge, with the body of each word in light grey and the ligature pairs (ED, ST, ND, CT, ED, es, st, ti) in solid black. The extreme weight makes the joins visibly tighter than in the lighter cuts.

Key takeaway

Showing the same two-tone ligature highlight at the family's heaviest weight, where the chunky letterforms make the joins most dramatic, while keeping the page identical to its siblings so the set still reads as one system.

Reuse notes

The heavyweight member of the four-page ligature series. Demonstrates that the highlight technique scales across very different weights; useful reference for documenting a display family with multiple extreme cuts.