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That's interesting, I for one had no idea. Does anyone have an explanation for the e and t, though? I don't see any of either of those letters in it. Maybe a
by silisili 4y ago
That's interesting, I for one had no idea.
Does anyone have an explanation for the e and t, though? I don't see any of either of those letters in it. Maybe a tiny bit of e, but surely no t....
- alex_young 4y agoWikipedia has some interesting discussion on that point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand
- eyelidlessness 4y agoYou can see more of the shape in some type faces, it’s a capital E and lowercase t in cursive script. Once you see it, it’s also hard to unsee.
- jwilk 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trebuchet_MS_ampersand.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trebuchet_MS_ampersand.sv... is a great example.
- kitd 4y agoMy Linux computer has the Caladea typeface installed. '&' in that is clearly `e` and `t` elided. ed: See https://d144mzi0q5mijx.cloudfront.net/img/C/A/Caladea0.png https://d144mzi0q5mijx.cloudfront.net/img/C/A/Caladea0.png