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  Red on Yellow

  09.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Nice and simple red on yellow ampersands. Outside a small store/deli on Nob Hill.

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  About

  08.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Throughout the course of this blog I left the about section more or less blank. I put placeholder Lorem Ipsum text up there and forgot about it. Thanks to Stefán Kjartansson for letting me know, and thanks for linking to my blog on You Work For Them.
  Oh, and here is a cool neon ampersand. [...]

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  The Journal of Urban Typography

  08.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Two examples from a great new blog.

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  How to make an ampersand

  06.23.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  From Rua Arnold who found a set of art and design books (published in 1967) at Goodwill.

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  A fine ampersand here

  06.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Nice and solid looking. Royalremarkable has a cool site, even though it has Steve Nash on it. I don’t usually go for the multiple splash page thing unless it is nice and weird and rewarding. Like this one.

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  Knitted ampersand hat

  06.11.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  it exists.

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  Vintage type sample

  06.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  How come I never find these things?
  Well magic jelly did. Thanks Susan.

• ampersands I like, examples, reader links

  Eastern European Matchbook Ampersand

  06.11.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  How cool.

  This is kind of funny because not too long ago I obtained a large pile of these old Czech matchbook covers from this guy. Thanks tokyocowboy.

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  Sixteen Handsome Ampersands

  06.09.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  From Designer/Writer/Researcher Kate Andrews.

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  Clement Street

  05.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

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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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