Tag: typography
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Make my fives look nothing like sixes
Another of my new year’s resolutions is to make my fives look nothing like sixes.
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I love my G monogrammed Starbucks cup. ;-)
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Unicode: What the world needs now is love
Last week, a Deaf friend of mine made a good point about Unicode adding a “raised middle finger” symbol to the new standard: “They still need an ASL ILY emoji.” Right she is! If you can flip someone the bird, you should be able to say “I love you” too. Perhaps submitting a character proposal to…
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There is no ass to Rick — and four other symbols you mispronounce
As an interpreter, I go to many places where people call typographical symbols by the wrong names. It irks me, but I can’t say anything about it while I’m interpreting, so please hear me now as I correct some common errors. @ This is an at sign, a.k.a. at symbol or simply at when spoken in an email…
Daniel Greene 