Andrew ShieldsNo cotton candy, no bumblebee.
And I Feel Fine
Brian Builta
#Poetry #BrianBuilta #IFeelFine #ThirdWednesday #Ampersands
https://thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2026/02/08/and-i-feel-fine-brian-builta/
Alma HoffmannThe other day I wrote in my blog that life’s failures are really an ampersand because the story continues. It stuck with me and I wanted to do a visual to use on a sticker or something. I drew the ampersand but the type is Bebas Neue. #ampersands #letteredampersands #almahoffmannlettering #almahoffmannletters #almahoffmann
Ampersands… #ampersands #letteringampersand #almahoffmannlettering #almahoffmannletters #almahoffmann
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@daveybot @Edelruth @boxofrain I like your description of ampersands. I’ve always thought of ampersands as grammars DEI LoL Your loverly public #AmperSands feel as if you're inviting & including us in your enjoyment of them.
Sam at BLAGFor World Ampersand Day, there's a little ampersand story towards the bottom of this 2017 Ghostsigns post:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2017/03/quernmore-road-signs-and-ghostsigns-cluster/
Quernmore Road Signs & Ghostsigns Cluster | Ghostsigns
Cluster of signs/ghostsigns, Quernmore Road, Haringey, including Brymay, John Bull, Stevens & Steeds, L.A. Gower, and a replacement ampersand.
Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭I love that one of my go-to typefaces, Alegreya, designed by Argentinian typeface foundry Huerta Tipográfica and distributed as open source fonts, features three different and very expressive #ampersands across its variants.
https://huertatipografica.com/en/fonts/alegreya-ht-pro
Huerta Tipográfica
Alegreya is a typeface originally intended for literature. Among its crowning characteristics, it conveys a dynamic and varied rhythm which facilitates the reading of long texts. Also, it provides freshness to the page while referring to the calligraphic letter, not as a literal interpretation, but rather in a contemporary typographic language. The italic has just as much care and attention to detail in the design as the roman. The bold weights are strong, and the Black weights are really experimental for the genre. There is also a Small Caps sister family. Not only does Alegreya provide great performance, but also achieves a strong and harmonious text by means of elements designed in an atmosphere of diversity. The Alegreya type system is a "super family", originally intended for literature, and includes serif and sans serif sister families. It supports expert latin, greek and cyrillic character sets and provides advanced typography OpenType features such as small caps, dynamic ligatures and fractions, four set of figures, super and subscript characters, ordinals, localized accent forms for spanish, catalan, guaraní, dutch, turkish, romanian, serbian among others. Alegreya was chosen at the ATypI Letter2 competition in September 2011, and one of the top 14 text type systems. It was also selected in the 2nd Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño, competition held in Madrid in 2010 and Tipos Latinos.
Letterform ArchiveMore San Francisco matchbooks: a series for Washington Square Bar & Grill, ca. 1980.
Branding by Lawrence E. Green featuring cartoons that make playful use of the Caslon swash in the restaurant’s name.
We’re grateful as always for @internetarchive, where we located attribution for the branding work in “Menu Design 3” by Judi Radice (1988).
Caslon 471 Italic Swash in phototype as seen in “Homage to the Alphabet”, Phil’s Photo, 1980.
#SanFrancisco #SFBA #Logos #Branding #Ampersands #Typography
It’s always about the ampersand. #ampersands #hiddenampersand #almahoffmannlettering #almahoffmannletters #almahoffmannwatercolors #almahoffmann
Ampersands seen in Ornamented Types: Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, I. M. Imprimit in association with the St Bride Printing Library, London, 1992.
See more from this portfolio in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_antiquarianfacsimile_0008
#Pouchée #Typefaces #Fonts #TypeDesign #WoodType #Ampersands
