Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks.
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
by Keith Houston
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Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols It is published in the UK by Penguin Books as Shady Characters Ampersands Interrobangs and Other Typographical Curiosities In paperback Get the paperback in the USA from Barnes Noble IndieBound or Powell’s Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols and Other Typographical Marks Keith Houston on FREE shipping on qualifying offers From ancient Greece to the Internet―via the Renaissance Gutenberg and Madison Avenue― Shady Characters exposes the secret history of punctuation A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols and Other Typographical Marks Keith Houston on FREE shipping on qualifying offers “An absolutely fascinating blend of history design sociology and cultural poetics―highly recommended”―Maria Popova Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols Other Typographical Marks From the Library of Alexandria to the halls of Bell Labs figures as diverse as Charlemagne Vladimir Nabokov and George W Bush cross paths with marks as obscure as the interrobang ‽ and as divisive as the dash Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols From ancient Greece to the Internet—via the Renaissance Gutenberg and Madison Avenue—Shady Characters exposes the secret history of punctuation 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 Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols From ancient Greece to the Internet via the Renaissance Gutenberg and Madison Avenue Shady Characters exposes the secret history of punctuationquot Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols Buy Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols and Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston ISBN 9780393064421 from Amazons Book Store Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols Ancient Roman graffiti Venetian trading shorthand Cold War double agents and Madison Avenue round out an ever more diverse set of episodes characters and artifacts Richly illustrated ranging across time typographies and countries Shady Characters will delight and entertain all who cherish the unpredictable and surprising in the writing life Shady characters the secret life of punctuation symbols Ancient Roman graffiti Venetian trading shorthand Cold War double agents and Madison Avenue round out an ever more diverse set of episodes characters and illustrated ranging across time typographies and countries Shady Characters will delight and entertain all who cherish the unpredictable and surprising in the writing life Shady Characters – The secret life of punctuation A decade later the American Institute of Graphic Arts created a similar vocabulary of symbols for use by the US Department of Transport in airports and other transportation hubs22 23 24 Fortyfive years later and the DOT’s symbols are still in use — indeed they have been enshrined in their own ISO standard25 Proof that a well
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks Keith Houston Télécharger Livres Gratuits
