Comments on: Are you alive‽

By: Brian Mc

Brian Mc — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:11:50 +0000

I can appreciate enthusiasm for the interrobang. All you really need to render it is the ability to have one character placed on top of another, like typing a sentence and then lining-out words. Hacking Word, etc. to allow this would open up a lot of possibilities. A good old-fashioned typewriter could do this easily. In the meantime, typing: WHAT?? seems to convey the concept of an interrobang.****If David Jacob likes the ampersand, he should love the section symbol and be quite fond of a stylish dollar sign or paragraph symbol.

By: Ashling

Ashling — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:07:57 +0000

I am excited I can be part of the population group #2. Whatever would I do without my favorite geek friend to explain the oddities and new fonts of this world!?<-( insert interrobang here because I am not technology smart enough to do so)

Also, good luck working on your Watson report and I hope you’re enjoying France, I pretty much love it there.

By: Dave Jacob Hoffman

Dave Jacob Hoffman — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:37:08 +0000

Time to throw down my typography cred here: Yes, I do occasionally read font blogs. Yes, I do own Helvetica the movie on DVD. Yes, my friends and I routinely point out instances of Papyrus used in professional work and groan aloud.

So let me step in to say that if we did not have insane typographers mashing together existing characters, we would not have the lovely ampersand. I don’t think I could stand to live in such a world.

I embrace the interrobang as a symbol of experimentation. It represents a bold step towards new frontiers, a flag on the page that proclaims, “WTF IS THAT THING‽”