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ampersand

Typographical character ‘&’.

Jan Tschichold's Formenwandlungen der &-Zeichen (1953) includes 288 varieties from the year 79 to the 19th century.



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The letters and power of attorney forms contained non-professional variations in the letterheads, such as commas and ampersands appearing in one document but not repeated on another.
If the site developer didn't explicitly write the application code to protect against data manipulation by using special characters such as ampersands and carrot signs, then it's very likely that a hacker will be able to hack a site and obtain confidential information, she noted.
Particularly characteristic are the ampersands, the extravagantly large "c"s, and the abbreviations of "per," but a comparison of individual capital and small letters reveals a whole series of equivalences, while the overall flow of the hand is instantly recognizable [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 3 OMITTED].
 
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