typography

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Printing press workshop

Posted by cennydd
October 22, 2008

A slightly shortened week, since Clearleft took Monday off for a day of printing press revelry at Ditchling Museum. Ditchling was, for many years, the home of sculptor, typographer and unspeakable pervert Eric Gill, and a large proportion of the museum is therefore dedicated to his work.
The first half of the day was dedicated to [...]

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The interrobang

Posted by cennydd
October 3, 2008

A quick hurrah for my favourite typographic glyph, the interrobang.
Introduced by Martin K Speckter in 1962, it was an attempt to condense the overactive punctuation of incredulous sentences such as “You drank how much?!”. Although it never really caught on, it still has some support in modern Unicode and can be used in HTML: ‽
Although [...]