#ampersands — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ampersands, aggregated by home.social.
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@daveybot @Edelruth @boxofrain I like your description of ampersands. I’ve always thought of ampersands as grammars DEI LoL Your loverly public #AmperSands feel as if you're inviting & including us in your enjoyment of them.
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For World Ampersand Day, there's a little ampersand story towards the bottom of this 2017 Ghostsigns post:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2017/03/quernmore-road-signs-and-ghostsigns-cluster/
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I love that one of my go-to typefaces, Alegreya, designed by Argentinian typeface foundry Huerta Tipográfica and distributed as open source fonts, features three different and very expressive #ampersands across its variants.
https://huertatipografica.com/en/fonts/alegreya-ht-pro
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More San Francisco matchbooks: a series for Washington Square Bar & Grill, ca. 1980.
Branding by Lawrence E. Green featuring cartoons that make playful use of the Caslon swash in the restaurant’s name.
We’re grateful as always for @internetarchive, where we located attribution for the branding work in “Menu Design 3” by Judi Radice (1988).
Caslon 471 Italic Swash in phototype as seen in “Homage to the Alphabet”, Phil’s Photo, 1980.
#SanFrancisco #SFBA #Logos #Branding #Ampersands #Typography
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Ampersands seen in Ornamented Types: Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, I. M. Imprimit in association with the St Bride Printing Library, London, 1992.
See more from this portfolio in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_antiquarianfacsimile_0008
#Pouchée #Typefaces #Fonts #TypeDesign #WoodType #Ampersands
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Greetings!
After making an account to see what this tooting is all about I was suggested this server as a better home base. So file this post under #introductions
I’m a #nonbinary #trans #woman with rather diverse interests. I work as a #designer & also run a small #software company that makes tools for designers.
I enjoy making #music & #cooking & #tea & #baking & stupid #jokes & #ampersands.
I live in #berlin #germany & hate German food.
My #autism special interest is #socialJustice🌈💖🏳️⚧️