Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
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“An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poeticshighly recommended.”Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.
Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (†)which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bibleor the at sign (@), which languished in obsc…
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