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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