It’s no secret that we love typography here at CONVOKE, but it’s easy to focus on letter-shapes and completely ignore special characters and punctuation.

This ends now.

The Ampersand, run by Stephen Gose,  is a blog devoted to one character and one character alone.  There you’ll find the history of the symbol (originating as a contraction of  ‘et’, the Latin word for ‘and’) as well as pictures of  signs, documents, and even tombstones with unique and interesting ampersands.  There’s also a section devoted to ampersand fan-art, where people submit their own creations, like this one made of woodchips by designer Sarah France.  I’m glad someone is making sure this little guy gets the credit he deserves.

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