300×65 Ampersands

I am a big fan of ampersands. There are few characters in the English language which allow for such an elaborate design to express its meaning.

A character to mean ‘et’ or ‘and’ if translated from Latin, many people choose to design this character with the ‘e’ and ‘t’ obviously present as it was often written originally, although I am never against simply designing it as the shape it has become known to us as.

So, you can imagine my delight to discover one mans journey for one year through 365 ampersands. Known as 300×65 Ampersands, this Tumblr feed gave us a different ampersand for the entirety of 2010… with a link through to the font.

This is a fantastic idea for creating interest for a font, however it appeared to have no commercial reasoning to it but just one mans love for the ampersand.

It is also a great way to find interesting fonts, although don’t be too disappointed if you find that the ampersand is a misleading representation of the remainder of the font as I frequently did when browsing the collection.