Ampersand, &c., et cetera ...

In 2010, SOTA [The Society of Typographic Aficionados] produced “Coming Together,” a font created to benefit Haitian earthquake victims. Consisting of over 400 ampersands, it represented the idea of people coming together to help one another. Nearly 400 type designers, graphic designers, and other artists from around the world contributed to the Font Aid IV project.

The font is being be sold for $20US and is available through font distributors Ascender Fonts and MyFonts. All proceeds from the sale of the font will go to Doctors Without Borders, to help with their relief efforts in Haiti.

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Bauer Type Foundry specimen (1912) showing the German Versal-Eszett. Also called the capital sharp S, capital ß, uppercase ß, majuscule ß, majuscule eszett. It is a contested letterform; historically the eszett (ß) had no uppercase form, but has become more common as modern design, in part due to official German language, spelling, signage, and typography reform, calls for the uppercase form (for example, in the setting of display text in all capitals).  Photographs © Ralf Herrmann from the Flickr pool dedicated to this letterform.