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Thomas Bohm: “This article is for anyone who works with typography, in any medium, and it is especially for those designers who are keen to give users the best reading experience possible.”-
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks (USA), or Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and Other Typographical Curiosities (UK), is an illustrated companion book of the website Shady Characters: The secret life of punctuation. “Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (†)—which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible—or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart the life and times of these enigmatic squiggles, both exotic (¶) and everyday (&). From the Library of Alexandria to the halls of Bell Labs, figures as diverse as Charlemagne, Vladimir Nabokov, and George W. Bush cross paths with marks as obscure as the interrobang (‽) and as divisive as the dash (—). Ancient Roman graffiti, Venetian trading shorthand, Cold War double agents, and Madison Avenue round out an ever more diverse set of episodes, characters, and artifacts.” -
“Comma Queen” Mary Norris from the New Yorker clarifies the difference between the hyphen (-), the en dash (–), and the em dash (—). -
A blog, sporting the tagline “The secret life of punctuation”, which gathers the unusual stories behind some well-known — and some rather more obscure — marks of punctuation. In 2013, a companion book has been published.
