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  Abolish Ampersands

  09.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  (in song titles.)
  A last.fm group.
  Description: For anyone who despises the use of ampersands in artist/album/song titles.
  eg, how “Iron and Wine” is automatically scrobbled to “Iron & Wine” even though on his latest album no ampersand is…
  Thanks Mary.

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  Fox Liquor & Groceries

  05.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is kind of an overgrown monster of an ampersand. It is kind of beautiful and ugly and interesting in the way a kudzu-choked tree is. Or maybe it actually reminds me of those mutant pesticide frogs with the extra legs. Anyways, it kind of defies the “ampersands I like” and “ampersands I dislike” categories [...]

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  Two from one of the local papers.

  05.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This beast came from the Berkeley Daily Planet in the Home & Real Estate section.

  And one more. Pretty ordinary except for the mysterious bump on the middle stroke.

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  On My Way Home Today

  05.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here are a couple I spotted on my way home today:
  There were hand painted Ampersands

  A local deli. I really like this one. Hand-painted and chubby.

  Coffee & Donuts. Another old-school hand-painted sign.
  Some clean sans-serif ones

  The old classic Helvetica ampersand from the Crate & Barrel logo. Helvetica always looks great giant and 3-D like that.

  Your standard sans-serif [...]

The Ampersand

A scribal abbreviation for and. Derived from the Latin word "et."

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I like the ampersand. I think it is often the most attractive character of them all. This blog is an attempt to give this humble ligature the respect it deserves. If you would like to submit some ampersand-related content, please let me know.

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