Comments on: Use the Best Available Ampersand

By: brian

brian — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:45:09 +0000

I wrote a follow up post at bluecomIT.com, taking Patrick Haney's Automatic "Awesompersands" a step further, and explaining why I think it is better to use the Dojo Toolkit’s dojo.query to do this. Also I’ve included a complete working examples of the Dojo and jQuery implementations, which I believe Patrick has missed =) Much respect to the both of you. You're true inspiration.

By: Rob Waite

Rob Waite — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:29:59 +0000

Nice post, very useful. Thanks.

By: ucuz tatil

ucuz tatil — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:42:29 +0000

good character font.

By: 18

18 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:41:21 +0000

thanks a loyt.good idea

By: Joshua Porter

Joshua Porter — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:05:53 +0000

I’m wondering if you would extend your advice to quotes…I find that sans-serif fonts have quotes that tend to be inelegant slabs, while serif fonts tend to have more elegant, curving quotes that match what we commonly think of when thinking about the shape.

By: Brendan Falkowski

Brendan Falkowski — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:51:13 +0000

Lovely, some enticing options there.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:59:04 +0000

I’ll toss in the factoid that the main character’s pet monkey in the fabulous comic series “Y: The Last Man” was named…. Ampersand!

By: Dan Moniz

Dan Moniz — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:04:30 +0000

Some other fonts included on Vista you might have forgotten about: the Segoe family. Thanks for the ampersample book, if I can be allowed to coin a word. Very nice and useful!

By: sansun

sansun — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:53:06 +0000

Ampersand should be simple & straight forward character.

By: Patrick Haney

Patrick Haney — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:27:19 +0000

After a lot of ampersand obsessing this evening, I finally wrote about using jQuery to automatically swap out boring ampersands with stylish ones, something I've meant to do for a while now (thanks for the kick in the rear, Dan). You can read more in my post entitled Automatic "Awesompersands" (giving credit where credit is due).