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There are a lot of fun fonts out there with ligatures, but not every program has the capacity to use them. This is an easy tutorial that shows how to insert those ligatures into pretty much any Windows program.  Launch the Windows Character Map. If you are using and earlier version of Windows you can just find it from the start menu. If you are using Windows 8 just type in Character Map in the windows search field. We are using one of LD's smart fonts,  ZP Mother Interlock.

A Smart Font is a .OTF font that has alternate characters and ligatures.  A ligature is where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph.  It is common to see AE or OE as a ligature (Æ or Œ ).  When you use a regular font, you have to type a code to create a ligature.  For AE you must type alt + 0198 in Windows.  But when you use a .OTF Smart Font, as soon as you type AE it will automatically be replaced with Æ if that was one of the characters in the Smart Font.