Shady characters
About this book
In *Shady Characters*, Keith Houston weaves a fascinating trail through the nooks and crannies of typographical history, from the Library of Alexandria to the halls of Bell Labs. Whether investigating the annotating duo of asterisk (\*) and dagger (†); the plucky pilcrow (¶) and humble ampersand (&); or the at sign (@) and octothorpe (\#), both newly reinvigorated by the Internet, *Shady Characters* will delight all who cherish the unpredictable and surprising in the writing life.
Subjects
- écriture
- histoire
- historia
- history
- interpunktion
- paleography
- ponctuation
- punctuation
- signes et symboles
- signs and symbols
- skrift
- symboler
- type and type-founding
- type and type-founding, history
- typography
- writing
- writing, history