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The "et" -> "&" lineage is even more visible in certain fonts like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trebuchet_MS_ampersand.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/
by 0x0 9y ago
The "et" -> "&" lineage is even more visible in certain fonts like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trebuchet_MS_ampersand.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trebuchet_MS_ampersand.sv... (linked from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand )
- amyjess 9y agoThe bottom row of this has some more examples: http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/roman-italic-ampersands.png http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/... (found via Google Image Search for italic ampersand). The one in the second column from the left (again, bottom row) is how I write my ampersands by hand.
- Chaebixi 9y ago> The "et" -> "&" lineage is even more visible in certain fonts Also in some of the handwritten forms like this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ampersand-handwriting-2.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ampersand-handwritin... It's basically a 't' with the cross-bar curled over to form something like an 'e'. I don't have any citations, but I'm pretty sure most of this evolution pre-dated the concept of "fonts," when all documents were handwritten manuscripts.