by Keith Houston · tapa dura · ISBN 9781846146473
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«Shady Characters» is Keith Houston's popular essay on typography, published by Penguin Books in hardback (340 pages, in English).
Keith Houston traces the history of punctuation marks from his blog Shady Characters: pilcrow, interrobang, ampersand, at sign, and octothorpe. Each symbol embodies centuries of changes in writing and technology, from ancient Greece to word processors, and reveals how much history fits on a single key.
For readers interested in the history of writing, typographic design, and the origins of everyday signs.
