On Wednesday 05 February 2003 19:20, Phillip Driscoll wrote:
[...]
> When Martin Spekter invented the symbol which is a combination
question mark and exclamation point in the 1960s, he named it the
"interrobang."

It's U+203D. So it wasn't Roger Price who invented it. (I wonder
what sound Victor Borge would have made for it!)

In Watertown Square, Wat'n., Mass., is a graphics shop named
Reproprint Inc., but the sign above its front window has a[n]
unique glyph like a small C superposed over a a small L*. The C is
displaced to the right, for a delightful play on "inc." and "ink".
It was done very well, leaving some space between the left edge of
the "C" and the "L".
*That is, a vertical stroke, part of a small K.

Unfortunately that part of the sign was removed recently, perhaps to
repair some weathered characters that had become detached. I really
hope they replace it, because it's so special. (I haven't seen any
of their printed material, which must also have the same happy
novelty.)

(There are people who are annoyed by such lighthearted
inventiveness; I feel sorry for them.)

- nb
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Austin Se7en -- British car, ca 1965?