---
title: Ligature
slug: Glossary/Ligature
tags:
  - CSS
  - Design
  - Glossary
---
A **ligature** is a joining of two characters into one shape. For example, in French "œ" is a ligature of "oe".

You can implement ligatures in your webpage with {{cssxref("font-variant-ligatures")}}.

## See also

- {{interwiki("wikipedia", "Typographic ligature", "Ligature")}} on Wikipedia
