Orson Welles’ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons” charts the decay of a Midwestern dynasty, a tumbling family unable to adapt to social change. The movie is now viewed as a masterpiece but its ...

Cheerily nuzzled above the “7” key like a pear-shaped pill bug, the ampersand is perhaps the most intriguing character on the keyboard. While all letters and punctuation marks look similar enough in ...

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Designers have many quirks, and one of the more common ones is getting giddy over an attractive ampersand. This one character seems to rouse the spirit of typophiles more than any other. Dan Cederholm ...