TTF — GSUB Ligatures (liga and dlig)
Standard and discretionary ligature substitutions in a real GSUB table: four liga ligatures including the three-glyph ffi, and two dlig ligatures that must stay off unless asked for. Each ligature's advance is the sum of its parts minus a documented tuck, so a shaping result is checkable by measuring. Original typeface, free to use.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & ! ? @ # % ( ) — “ ”
12pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
16pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
28pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
40pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Specifications
- Family
- Novus Grotesk P7 Layout
- Units Per Em
- 1000
- Cap Height
- 700
- X Height
- 500
- Wave
- p7
- Seed
- 20260807
- Built With
- fontTools 4.x
- Determinism
- head.created/head.modified pinned to 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z, recalcTimestamp off; outlines are parametric, colour material is seeded
- Usage Rights
- original artwork, free for any use
- Features
- liga, dlig
- Standard Ligatures
- f_i, f_l, f_f, f_f_i
- Discretionary Ligatures
- s_t, c_t
- Ligature Advances
- f_i = 687, f_l = 687, f_f = 766, f_f_i = 1010
- Tuck
- 120 units per join
- Glyphs
- 157
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Shape the strings 'fi fl ff ffi' and 'st ct' with liga on and dlig off, then with both on.
- Expected result
- With liga only, the f-ligatures collapse to single glyphs and 'st'/'ct' stay two glyphs; with dlig on they collapse too. Each ligature advance equals the sum of its components minus 120 units per join.
What is a .ttf file?
TTF (TrueType Font) is a scalable outline font format developed by Apple and Microsoft that uses quadratic Bezier curves and includes hinting for sharp rendering at small sizes. It stores glyph outlines, metrics, and character mappings in a single file. It is one of the most widely supported desktop and web font formats.
How to use this file
Use an example TTF to test font parsers, glyph and metric extraction, text-rendering pipelines, and converters that produce web font formats like WOFF.
How to use this file for testing
“TTF — GSUB Ligatures (liga and dlig)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Editor testing, Web assets. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: seed 20260807. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Font fixtures carry a small documented glyph set across the common wrappers. Test font loaders, subsetting, and @font-face; the specimen preview renders the glyphs the face actually maps.
Code examples
@font-face {
font-family: "Sample";
src: url("NovusLayoutLigatures.ttf");
}
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