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Day 82/100: The Exclamation Comma. This now-extinct glyph was created and patented in Canada by three American inventors in 1992, and true to its name, it was designed to both look and act like the lovechild of the incredibly utilitarian comma and the equally hated and adored exclamation point. Inventors Leonard Storch, Haagen Ernst Van and Sigmund Silber wrote in their patent application that the exclamation comma was for use 'within a written sentence between words as a comma, but with more feeling'. Likewise, the comma is for expressing a question before a sentence has ended. To draw it, you put the long vertical line of an exclamation point over the familiar curve of a comma. Like an exclamation point, it was used to denote excitement, add flourish, and generally lend a statement a certain degree of emotion and emphasis. Unfortunately, the exclamation comma isn’t standard in font sets and can’t easily be used in typing...c'est la vie! [Digital type, black on white, pure & simple] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #thepunctuationproject #punctuation #punctuationmarks #punctuationpoints #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #exclamationmarks #exclamationcomma #comma #vector #blackandwhite #monochrome #graphic #graphicdesign #obseletepunctuation #emphasis #type

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Day 47/100: The 'Doubt Point Pattern'. The doubt point lent itself to being a fun #punctuationpattern with its zigzag nature reminiscent of lightening. Can lightening strike twice? It can in my #punctuationproject ☇ [Half-drop technical repeat pattern designed using the doubt point pencil motif] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #punctuation #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #punctuationmarks #punctuationpoints #patterndesign #patterndesigner #surfacepatterndesign #surfacepatternconcept #doubtpoint #thedoubtpoint #doubtmark #red #redpattern #halfdroprepeat

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Day 57/100: The Broken Bar. The broken bar (¦) in computing was historically an allograph of the vertical bar. Since the 1990s, it is considered a separate character, but in many fonts, the glyph used for the vertical bar looks exactly like a broken bar. The broken bar has hardly any practical application and does not appear to have any clearly identified uses distinct from the vertical bar. In non-computing use - in mathematics, physics and general typography -  the broken bar is not an acceptable substitute for the vertical bar. It's not on all keyboards but mine is a pretty cool #cherrykeyboard & the broken bar is right next to the number 1 (with 2 other functions for the same key). I think I could use it in a pattern if not in a written text... [Broken bar key in font size 500] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #punctuation #thebrokenbar #brokenbar #programmingsymbols #computingsymbols #glyph #obseletepunctuation #character #typographicalsymbols #typography

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Day 99/100: The Therefore Sign (∴) In mathematical proof, the therefore sign is generally used before a logical consequence, such as the conclusion of a syllogism. The symbol consists of three dots placed in an upright triangle and is read 'therefore'. While it is not generally used in formal writing, it is used in mathematics and shorthand. It is complementary to '∵', meaning because. Example use in a syllogism: All gods are immortal. Zeus is a god. ∴ Zeus is immortal. Or: x + 1 = 6 ∴ x = 5 The therefore sign is sometimes used as a substitute for an asterism ⁂. In meteorology, the therefore sign is used to indicate moderate rain on a station model; the asterism indicates moderate snow. [Three drops of nail varnish on card] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #therefore #thereforesign #punctuation #punctuationsymbols #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #punctuationmarks #shorthand #shorthandsymbols #mathematicalsymbols #maths #syllogism #dots #triangle #uprighttriangle #nailvarnish #nailvarnishdots #spots

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Day 98/100: The Part Alternation Mark. This Japanese #punctuationmark is used to indicate the beginning of a song, or the beginning of the next player's part. It was most common in Noh chanting books and Renga (linked verse). In Noh books it is used to mark the beginning of each character's (or the chorus') parts. I think this #symbol is really unusual & interesting & couldn't resist the similarity with mountain peaks! 🏞 [Wool arranged over an image of Scottish mountains on the approach to Glencoe] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #the100dayproject #100days #gm100dayproject #punctuation #thepunctuationproject #punctuationmarks #punctuationdesign #punctuationsymbols #punctuationlibrary #japan #japanese #japanesepunctuation #japaneselanguage #japanesesymbol #partalternationmark #partalternation #music #musicalsymbols #chorus #renga #linkedverse #verse #nohchanting #song #mountains #mountainpeaks #scottishmountains #scotland #glencoe #wool #ballofwool #creativerepresentation #creativeplay #creativehabit #dailyhabit #elleluna #annedillard

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Day 98/100: The Part Alternation Mark 〽 庵点 ioriten or 歌記号 utakigō in Japanese, this mark is used to indicate the beginning of a song, or the beginning of the next player's part. It was most common in Noh chanting books and Renga (linked verse). In Noh books it is used to mark the beginning of each character's (or the chorus') parts. I thought this was such an interesting #punctuationmark & couldn't resist its similarity to mountain peaks! 🏞 [Wool arranged over an image of Scottish mountains on the approach to Glencoe] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #punctuation #japanesepunctuation #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #punctuationmarks #partalternationmark #partalternation #japaneselanguage #japanesesymbol #japanese #language #renga #linkedverse #verse #nohchanting #song #music #musicalsymbols #chorus #creativerepresentation #creativeplay #creativehabit #dailyhabit #glencoe #scotland #scottishmountains #wool #woolshapes #nearlythere

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Day 77/100: The infinity symbol ∞. Sometimes called the lemniscate, it is a mathematical symbol representing the concept of infinity. (Oh how we all wish for an infinity of Sundays, or maybe Saturdays or just...youth? Life? Summer? Fun times?) In old times when most typesetting was by hand with lead type, the infinity symbol was easily made by typesetting an 8 rotated 90 degrees. In mathematics, the infinity symbol is used more often to represent a potential infinity, rather than to represent an actually infinite quantity. The infinity sign is conventionally interpreted as meaning that the variable grows arbitrarily large (towards infinity) rather than actually taking an infinite value. In areas other than mathematics, the infinity symbol may take on other related meanings; for instance, it has been used in bookbinding to indicate that a book is printed on acid-free paper and will therefore be long-lasting. In modern mysticism, the infinity symbol has become identified with a variation of the ouroboros, an ancient image of a snake eating its own tail that has also come to symbolize the infinite, and the ouroboros is sometimes drawn in figure-eight form to reflect this identification, rather than in its more traditional circular form. The well known shape and meaning of the infinity symbol have also made it a common typographic element of graphic design. [Blue ink on watercolour paper. I love seeing the grain of the paper!] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #punctuationsymbols #mathematicalsymbols #symbols #infinity #toinfinity #infinitysymbol #lemniscate #typesetting #figureofeight #theconceptofinfinity #ouroboros #watercolour #watercolourpaper #blueink #ink #bookbinding

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Day 64/100: The Crossed D/Dyet. Known as crossed D or dyet, the-D-with-the-line-through-it that I can't recreate here, is a letter formed from the base character D/d overlaid with a crossbar. Crossing was used to create eth (ð), but eth has an uncial as its base whereas đ is based on the straight-backed roman d. Crossed d is a letter in the alphabets of several languages and is used in linguistics as a phonetic symbol. [Checkerboard artistic pen in the Procreate app on iPad pro] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #punctuation #punctuationdesign #punctuationproject #punctuationmarks #punctuationlibrary #crossedD #d #letters #theletterd #alphabet #phoneticalphabet #phoneticsymbols #language #latin #latinalphabet #dyet #crossbar #punctuationnomore #ipadpro #procreate #procreateapp #procreatesketch

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Day 63/100: Ampersand Pattern. I couldn't resist using the ampersand again, in a quick repeating pattern and with a colour change. Akin to the figure of eight, loops like this feel timeless, vivacious & fun. [Adobe Photoshop + existing ampersand motif] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #punctuation #punctuationdesign #punctuationproject #punctuationmarks #punctuationlibrary #punctuationpattern #ampersand #surfacepatterndesign #technicalrepeat #patterndesign #patternlibrary #and #repeatampersand #loops #handdrawn #handdrawnpunctuation

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Day 60/100: The Grave Accent ( ` ). A diacritical mark in many written languages, the grave accent first appeared in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek to mark a lower pitch than the high pitch of the acute accent. In modern practice, it replaces an acute accent in the last syllable of a word when that word is followed immediately by another word. The grave and circumflex have been replaced with an acute accent in the modern monotonic orthography. The accent mark was called βαρεῖα, the feminine form of the adjective βαρύς (barús), meaning "heavy" or "low in pitch". This was calqued (loan-translated) into Latin as gravis, which then became the English word grave. The grave accent marks the stressed vowels of words in Maltese, Catalan, and Italian. I've gone a bit psychedelic for this one: [An arrangement of grave accents to make a geometric flower on a marbled background] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #punctuation #thepunctuationproject #punctuationmarks #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #graveaccent #grave #ancientgreek #latin #language #pronunciation #vowels #vowelaccents #punctuationrules

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Day 56/100: The Tie. The tie is a symbol in the shape of an arc similar to a large breve, used in Greek, phonetic alphabets, and Z notation. It can be used between two characters with spacing as punctuation, or non-spacing as a diacritic. It can be above or below, and reversed. Its forms are called tie, double breve, enotikon or papyrological hyphen, ligature tie, and undertie. I had never even seen this before, nevermind heard of it as punctuation. (And sneakily, I think it looks a lot like a rainbow 😂😊😉!) [Ink & brush, inverted with digital dots, a bit like stars...] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #the100dayproject #100days #gm100dayproject #punctuation #thetie #tie #tiepunctuation #doublebreve #phoneticalphabet #greek #arc #enotikon #papyrologicalhyphen #typographicalsymbols #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #diacritic #diacriticmarks #oddpunctuation #funpunctuation

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Day 55/100: The Single Asterisk. A symbol (*) used in text as a pointer to an annotation or footnote; and as a verb, to mark (a word or piece of text) with an asterisk: "asterisked entries" An asterisk (*; from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek asteriskos, "little star") is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as star (in the A* search algorithm or C*-algebra for example). In English, an asterisk is usually five-pointed in sans-serif typefaces, six-pointed in serif typefaces, and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten. It can be used as censorship and is often used on the Internet to correct spelling. In computer science, the asterisk is commonly used as a wildcard character, or to denote pointers, repetition, or multiplication. [Yellow asterisk peg on a plastic pegboard] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #thepunctuationproject #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #punctuation #typographicalsymbols #asterisk #theasterisk #asteriskos #symbols #star #littlestar #greeklanguage #ancientgreek #latelatin #language #glyph #wildcard #pegboard #pegboardsymbols #annotation #footnote

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Day 46/100: The Interrobang. It has all the drama and excitement of “?!” but without having to type two characters. What could be more useful than that?! The interrobang, also known as the interabang ‽ is a nonstandard punctuation mark used in various written languages and intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the "interrogative point") and the exclamation mark or exclamation point, known in the jargon of printers and programmers as "the bang". The glyph is a superimposition of these two marks. I say bring this one back! [Ink & fountain pen, colours inverted] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #thepunctuationproject #punctuation #punctuationmarks #punctuationpoints #interrobang #theinterrobang #interabang #thebang #glyph #exclamation #exclamationmarks #ink #fountainpen #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #oddpunctuation #funpunctuation #language #writteninink #nonstandardpunctuation

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Day 43/100: "Because". Just...because. It looks a lot like a face but it's a simple shorthand for 'because'. I like it. (Probably because I love #facesinthings 😂😂😂) [Digital brushstrokes arranged in a triangle] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #thepunctuationproject #punctuation #punctuationmarks #square #squares #because #becausesign #becausemark #justbecause #shorthand #punctuationshorthand #digitalmarks #digitalpunctuation #punctuationlibrary #punctuationface

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Day 42/100: Punctuation Pattern #2 "A Question (of love)" I'm on a roll with the patterning of my #punctuation motifs so far. This one combines the question mark, double quotations & the recent 'hedera' to reveal a not-very-hidden message "A Question (of love)". See what I did there? I recoloured it for a spring-like vibe in dashing #chartreuse & #heliotrope with the dark greys & black of the original motifs. Perhaps a good #pattern for a notebook? [Punctuation motifs in a technical repeat pattern] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #thepunctuationproject #punctuationdesign #punctuationlibrary #punctuationmarks #punctuationpoints #punctuationpattern #surfacepatterndesign #springpattern #patternlover #patterndesigner #punctuationpatterns #technicalrepeat #showyourwork

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Day 41/100: The Punctuation Pattern. As I near the halfway point of the project, it felt like a good time to throw a #pattern into the mix. I've used #punctuation motifs from the previous 40 days, including day one's inked exclamation marks which are one of my favourites so far. And yellow seemed like a good, cheery, almost-summer background colour ☉ [Digitised hand drawn punctuation elements in a technical repeat pattern] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #thepunctuationproject #gm100dayproject #punctuationmarks #punctuationpoints #punctuationpattern #surfacepatterndesign #patterndesign #punctuationtheme #punctuationlibrary #libraryofpunctuation #yellow #punctuationmotifs #design #punctuationdesign #exclamationmarks