Tag Archives: typography

The Evolution of the Ampersand

I might be bla­tantly steal­ing from this post, so please readt i bforet, and give it all the credit. A most amaz­ing site about the his­tory of all the cool typo­graphic char­ac­ters — which are often left unno­ticed and not played much around with in type­faces (like the octothorpe = #), and very pretty char­ac­ters

My font fetish

I’d been look­ing for this font every­where. It was every­where in print, in all the cool new books my brother had got­ten (like Real­ity Check). That was rather notice­able — all the for­eign pub­lished and printed books have such sophis­ti­cated typog­ra­phy, it actu­ally makes you hate the other Indian print books, due to their super