The ampersand
Adobe’s history of the ampersand.
The term ampersand, as Geoffrey Glaister writes in his “Glossary of the Book,” is a corruption of and (&) per se and, which literally means “(the character) & by itself (is the word) and.” The symbol & is derived from the ligature of ET or et, which is the Latin word for “and.”
(Previously, on While You Were Ampersand)
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Use the Best Available Ampersand
This article is way too geeky for you to want to read, but I had to post it anyway, because it coins the best neologism of 2008 thus far: awesompersand.
Genius. If I were the owner of this ampersand blog I would snap up http://awesompersand.com post haste.
Typography Porn
This is a tremendous little excursion into the world of the ampersand.
