Nerd Rage

Pretty spacy amper­sand this week, from Cam­bal­ache, an equally spacy font.

This week’s amper­sand hails from the just-a-little-bit-crazy cor­ner of typog­ra­phy, but that just makes it awe­some. Here it is, Batory Mid­dle:

Today’s (or this week’s) amper­sand is from Rooney Pro by Jan Fromm, a very nice-looking serif fam­ily that will set you back a mere $546 if you want them all. Unfor­tu­nately, it does not con­tain Greek let­ters, so it can­not really be used for sci­en­tific work requir­ing math­e­mat­ics…

Hot on the heels of Celtic comes the ele­gant amper­sand of Encoder Medium. Also check out the mas­sive Encoder Fat.

Today’s amper­sand is brought to you by RM Celtic. It’s a fusion of the let­ters “E” and “T” from that font.

At the end of each year (or there­about), all sorts of best-of lists pop up every­where. Many of them remind me of elder­ber­ries (i.e. they stink). Not so the best fonts list, of course. Here is a col­lec­tion of var­i­ous Best Fonts of 2010 lists, which I’ll try to keep updated as more lists are …

The rea­son for the choice of today’s amper­sand is not nec­es­sar­ily aes­thet­i­cally dri­ven, but more of a tech­ni­cal nature. It’s the amper­sand from Droid, the new text font around here. With web fonts becom­ing more com­mon and font host­ing ser­vices becom­ing more numer­ous, site own­ers are no longer required to use the bor­ing fonts on …

Look­ing at the glyphs in Cal­ibri Reg­u­lar the other day, I found this alter­na­tive amper­sand: It’s funny to find this in a Microsoft font, since there is no inher­ent method in any Microsoft pro­gram to access alter­na­tive glyphs. Looks a bit like the Wind­sor amper­sand, but not as good.

Als ich neulich The Inven­tion of Lying sah, ist mir dieses schicke Amper­sand im Abspann aufge­fallen: Die Schrift heißt Wind­sor Light Con­densed, und wird auch gerne von Woody Allen benutzt, wie man hört.