Stylegala news / May 2008 / Jonathan Hoefler on the Origins of the Ampersand
Jonathan Hoefler on the Origins of the Ampersand
“Though it feels like a modern appendix to our ancient alphabet, the ampersand is considerably older than many of the letters that we use today. By the time the letter W entered the Latin alphabet in the seventh century, ampersands had enjoyed six hundred years of continuous use…” There, that’s already ten times more than you knew about the character before.
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