But a Russian guy wrote a pretty fantastic article about the ampersand anyways. My favorite part might be this sample with 5 different ampersands scattered across the same page. Read & Learn. Artemy Lebedev: § 112. Ampersand
From The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems (1947): A slopeshouldered shape from scurrying burdens Backward and forth, or perhaps a lyre Or a clef wrung wry in tuning untunable tones Or a knot for tugging an out-of-hand. Vine to the trellis in clerical gardens: Sweetness & light, ice & fire, Nature & art have dissocketed […]
Quoted from page 78 of Elements of Typographic Style (version 2.5) by Robert Bringhurst. 5.1.3 In heads and titles, use the best available ampersand. The ampersand is a symbol evolved from the Latin et, meaning and. It is one of the oldest alphabetic abbreviations, and it has assumed over the centuries a wonderful variety of […]