The linked article on Unicode is far more interesting actually. I never really cared to think before how Unicode works, but reading the submission letter of beet emoji was the most interesting thing I've read this month so far.
It’s difficult (impossible?) to force a font on the web in a way that can’t be overridden by some users. This must have been a font designed for device-specific applications picked up for other use-cases? Or maybe they just didn’t care that the long tail of users might see the string “googlelogoligature” instead of the logo.
I thought there was something wrong with this blog post that kept writing "googlelogoligature" but no some absolute cretin really added that as a ligature to the font.
> Fonts can include "ligatures", which let font designers special-case specific combinations of letters ... but the feature has been (ab)used for many other things<p>Same reason to not use ligatures in your IDE, terminal, etc.<p>Did that trend finally die off?