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Only sorta ampersand related
But I like this pixelly fellow. Fun times.
Abby from the University of Minnesota Student Unions & Activities.
I work in the marketing department of Student Unions & Activities at the University of Minnesota. Judging by our name, you can probably guess why I would like to submit content. Our entire brand is based around the &. [...] -
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Ouroboros Ampersand
Yeah I didn’t know what the hell an Ouroboros was until I did some google research, but this ampersand that was submitted kind of looks like the ampersand version of that. Is it just me? Check it out.
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Microscopic Ampersands
Jakes writes:
So I was screwing around in Bio today, with the USB microscopes. A handout we’d been given had a nice large ampersand in the title (comic sans, I believe, but that’s not the point). I put the two together, and have uploaded some shots of ampersands under a microscope, at 10x magnification, to the [...] -
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Chicago El
A nice ampersand from the Chicago El signage at the “North & Clybourn”
station:from Fuzzy.
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Ampersands With Attitude
One designer lists his ten favorite examples of the ampersand.
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Gocco Ampersand Card
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
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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A scribal abbreviation for and. Derived from the Latin word “et.”About
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