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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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