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Friday, September 8, 2017

NATIONAL AMPERSAND DAY

September 8 is NATIONAL AMPERSAND DAY


WHY should we care about ampersands?

1.  I like to say the word.

2.  It's a glyph

3.  The sign is aesthetically pleasing to me.

4.  It's a ligature of "e" and "t" (that's "et" in Latin;  et means "and").

WHY was September 8 chosen as Ampersand Day? Chaz DeSimone, founder of Ampersand Day, chose the date because several of the characters can be cleverly disguised as ampersands, when the right fonts are used:


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