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  Ampersands With Attitude

  08.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One designer lists his ten favorite examples of the ampersand.
  From Smashing Magazine. Sent in by Chris.

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  Gocco Ampersand Card

  08.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  After checking out your blog, I was pretty inspired to do my next set of gocco cards with an ampersand theme. I looked through all of the ampersands I could find in about 300 fonts and narrowed it down to a diverse set of about 20. I then used these small fonts (12-20pt) to create [...]

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  xkcd

  08.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am not nerdy enough to understand XKCD, but I still read it anyways. Thanks to Harris for sending it in.

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  Sin & Win

  08.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Sin & Win.
  From a gallery/antique store last week in Yucca Valley, Ca.

• not an ampersand, reader links

  Not an Ampersand #1

  08.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am not going to embarrass the loyal reader who sent this in, but I thought it could lead to a nice new series of educational posts called “Not an Ampersand.”

  This lovely garden sculpture is actually the musical symbol called the clef.

• 3-d ampersands, reader links

  Metal Ampersands are Everywhere

  08.14.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Anthropologie (Urban Outfitters for grown-up ladies) has them now. Sweet.

  I tried to see how much they wanted for it but:
  Sorry, no items were found for the keyword “ampersand “.
  If you feel this is in error:
  * Please try a new search using a basic word, phrase or item #.
  [...]

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  Textorizer

  08.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  From Sander:
  Hi, Great & website you got here! I came across this website and put in this image with text “&” it gave some interesting results.
  Good luck!
  OK. So I tried it…

  Nifty!
  Here is another ampersand made of ampersands.

• reader links

  08.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tagging is a felony.
  According to bongo, this was a brewery, and then a cold storage facility.

• ampersands I like, photography, reader links

  China & Glass

  08.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Brushes & Brooms.
  Submitted by Tim from Chipstead, England.

• reader links, writing about ampersands

  Thoughts on usage.

  08.08.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Just a note. When I first learned this DTP (graphic design) stuff in the mid-80’s – there was no one to teach it, so we all learned by flying by the seat of our pants.
  To this end, I did some serious study of typography, scouring the local library for any and all books about the [...]

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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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