Sunday January 8, 2012
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Personal Archaeology
Type History
My First-Published Type-Related Article
I was going through some old papers today and found this:
It’s a short article I wrote that appeared in the November 1967 issue of Town Views, the student newspaper at the elementary school I attended. I was 11 years old at the time.
As I recall, I heard about the interabang* from a newsletter my dad used to bring home from work. It was published by Falk, an industrial company that made forklifts or something. But always had interesting topics. I remember seeing M.C. Escher’s work for the first time in one issue.
Seeing this again I realized it’s probably the first type-related thing I ever wrote. I’m sure at the time I just thought it was interesting.
*This is an alternate and apparently older spelling that still appears in some dictionaries—usually it’s spelled “interrobang” today.
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