The shorthand history of the ampersand
Tracing the roots and modern expressions of typography’s most interesting character
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5 min readMay 24, 2020
Often regarded as a single character or glyph, the ampersand is actually a logogram (a character representing a word or phrase) with a graphic form dating back to the 1st century, originating as a ligature combining the lowercase Roman letters e and t (et…
