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05 / 09 — Puzzle game • iPhone — 2026

LIGATURE

Sorts that merge. Identical sorts fuse into ligatures. Swipe, merge, and climb from a single letter to ink — or fill the page and print MISMATCH.

View on the App Store

Free forever. Optional Specimen Book.

A typographic merge puzzle.

The 2048 loop, set in a beautiful book.

  • No ads
  • No tracking
  • No account
  • Offline-first

01

The joke

Matching sorts slide together and become the next form on a printer’s ladder — i, f, fi, fl, ff… all the way toward ink. One page. One stick. One tap to try again. Your score is the form you set, not a counter in the corner.

02

How it plays

  • Swipe to slide every sort on the composing stick
  • Same rank + same rank → the next ligature
  • POINT SIZE sets density: a harder page, not a different game
  • When nothing can move: MISMATCH. Then RESET.

03

Type as systems

  • Multi-script re-voicings, each with its own ladder of forms
  • Specimen typefaces and paper editions: INK, NIGHT, PHOSPHOR
  • THE PAGE (tight) or THE SPREAD (open form)
  • DAILY FORM: one attempt, a shared course

04

Same house

Sister to SNAAAAKE — same paper, ink and letterpress red, a new joke. Free forever at the core, with an optional Specimen Book for the full wardrobe of faces and papers.

Details

On the App Store
July 15, 2026
Version
1.0
Runs on
iPhone
Requires
iOS 17
Size
6 MB
Languages
English · multi-script
Price
Free forever. Optional Specimen Book.
Listed as
LIGATURE: Type Merge
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