Why is my font acting weird?

[sisdsigns]

I have a project that requires a lot of typing and Liberation Serif is the chosen font. Why do letters like the f and I merge into one when typing in Affinity but not in other programs? Is there any way to avoid this? Attachment #1 is the way it looks in Affinity and attachment #2 is how I want it to look.

[walt.farrell]

Because you have Standard Ligatures enabled for that text. That function is supported by the font, and probably enabled by default, but it may not be supported in some other programs. You'll find the setting in the Character panel, under Typography:

You can turn it off there, or in your Text Style.

 

[Old Bruce]

the "fi" is called a ligature. Some fonts have them some don't. You can turn Ligatures off for the various Paragraph Styles.

  

[sisdsigns]

Thanks a lot! It worked beautifully!

[walt.farrell]

29 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

You can turn Ligatures off for the various Paragraph Styles.

And for that font, you can easily see the benefit of having the ligature, since it avoids the collision:

[Alfred]

4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

And for that font, you can easily see the benefit of having the ligature, since it avoids the collision:

Most fonts benefit from having an ‘fi’ and other standard ligatures. I’m a little surprised not to see an ‘ffi’ ligature in action here.

[Old Bruce]

24 minutes ago, Alfred said:

I’m a little surprised not to see an ‘ffi’ ligature in action here.

That is not in the font I chose. Bodoni.