Member eli… Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 What I dislike are ampersands in which the big diagonal stroke changes arc directions a few times. (This is Bell:) I appreciate the intention -- that the stroke bows out to accommodate the bottom counter -- but that kind of stroke has always struck my eye as ungraceful (particularly bothersome in a glyph that, as this thread's examples have shown, is often the height of graceful design). Link to comment
Member Ben… Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Agreed, that bend always looks odd. My favourite is Dante Bold Italic Link to comment
Member diz… Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 I enjoy the ampersands in the Affair typeface from Veer. I used it on my wedding invitations and they just compliment it so well. Link to comment
Member pau… Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 I really love a good wood type ampersand, here are a couple: Link to comment
Member Fro… Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 This one is also very beautiful: It's Stilla. Link to comment
Member mar… Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 hi everyone, a question occurred while designing a book. in a small text like this, which use of the ampersand is correct? A. © 2003, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer B. © 2003, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer thx for answering. best, marcus Link to comment
Member Flo… Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Hi Marcus, Detailtypografie says: “Im Trennungsfalle kommt es auf die neue Zeile”. Thus, B. F Link to comment
Member ppk… Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 http://ampersandampersand.tumblr.com/ Link to comment
Member PCA… Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Here's a pretty rad ampersand letterpress bcard set a buddy of mine did: --------------------------------- patrick carter design Link to comment
Member hra… Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 Very tasteful card. -- Diane, you used Affair on your wedding invitation?! :-) -- One of my most favorite ampersands is the one in Triplex Italic. It's an "E"+"t" without at all looking archaic. hhp Link to comment
Member Can… Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Baskerville italic, Goudy italic, and Caslon italic. Notice a pattern? :P I also really like American Typewriter's. Link to comment
Member qua… Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 The trouble with the ampersand in FF Olsen, in addition to the mere novelty, is that it juxtaposes a capital letter and a lowercase letter - and they have different weights. That can be legitimately questioned from an æsthetic point of view. Creativity and originality aren't "bad", but if a typeface is in some aspects outré or self-indulgent, whether in the design of the ampersand, or the letter Q, or some other such matter, it's entirely reasonable to look for an alternative typeface that can fulfill the same role without distracting elements. While the ampersand, unlike most other special characters, usually was designed specifically for each given typeface even in the days of foundry type, the technical limitation of always using a Bodoni-ish version of the sorts @, #, %, and * did at least have one thing to be said for it - problems in recognizing these less-common characters were avoided. Link to comment
Member Fro… Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 The trouble with the ampersand in FF Olsen, in addition to the mere novelty, is that it juxtaposes a capital letter and a lowercase letter - and they have different weights. Ƕ combines uppercase and lowercase as well. Link to comment
Member qua… Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 @frode frank:Ƕ combines uppercase and lowercase as well. OK, that's the Latin capital letter Hwair. It's a ligature (there's also a completely different Gothic letter of the same name). The lowercase form, ƕ, is called "hv". Ah. I had to read the Wikipedia article very carefully to figure out what the ligature was for - it was to represent that different-looking Gothic letter in Latin transliteration. Link to comment
Member pea… Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 http://i47.tinypic.com/xdgp51.png pretty sexy script ampersand Link to comment
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