#punctuationpoints

[daintydoraposts]

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

[kaiabunga]

The first two chapters for this project are up, and the third is well underway. This story acts as a sequel to an old story of mine I stopped writing about two years ago, prior to The Final Season’s launch, which you can read here if you want Dom’s backstory. Otherwise, I’m trying to make the story as accessible as possible for new readers, more info on the backstory of the fic is in the notes on AO3 :)

[daintydoraposts]

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

[kaiabunga]

After Violet was left blinded by Lilly, Clementine tries to comfort her in the only way she knows how.

[daintydoraposts]

Day 33/100: The pilcrow (¶). Also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea (Latin: a linea, "off the line"), or blind P, the pilcrow is a typographical character for individual paragraphs. The pilcrow can be used as an indent for separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy, as Eric Gill did in his 1930s book, An Essay on Typography. The pilcrow was a type of rubrication used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of visually discrete paragraphs was commonplace. It is usually drawn similar to a lowercase q reaching from descender to ascender height; the loop can be filled or unfilled. It may also be drawn with the bowl stretching further downwards, resembling a backwards D; this is more often seen in older printing. [Pencil drawing] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #thepunctuationproject #punctuation #punctuationmarks #punctuationpoints #typography #printingmarks #typesetting #thepilcrow #pilcrow #theparagraphmark #paragraphs #pencil #pencilsketch #pencilsketch #paraph #blindp #indent #indentmarking #alinea

[daintydoraposts]

Day 30/100: The Œ Ligature. A Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e, it was used in mediaeval and early modern Latin. In French, it represents the mid-front rounded vowel-sounds, and in Old West Norse it's used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the open-mid front rounded vowel. In English runology, œ is used to transliterate the runic letter odal. Classical Latin wrote the o and e separately (as has today again become the general practice), but the ligature was used by mediaeval and early modern writings, in part because the diphthongal sound that the oe originally denoted had by Late Latin merged into the sound [e]. [Digital text with associated words] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #thepunctuationproject #punctuation #punctuationmarks #punctuationpoints #latin #language #mediaevallanguage #french #frenchwords #words #text #type #runology #vowelsounds #vowels #ligature #oeligature #œligatures #oe #grapheme #graphemes

[daintydoraposts]

Day 28/100: The Cedilla (/sᵻˈdɪlə/ si-DIL-ə; from Spanish), also known as cedilha (from Portuguese) or cédille (from French), is a hook or tail ( ¸ ) added under certain letters as a diacritical mark to modify their pronunciation. I know it's not only a Spanish mark, but it felt like a fun way to show this one off over the Spanish flag. The cedilla certainly makes me think of Spain, though 'Cachaça' is my favourite example of it in a word... 😉🍸 [Pencil on paper, digitally layered over the Spanish flag] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #thepunctuationproject #punctuation #punctuationmarks #punctuationpoints #diacritical #diacriticalmarks #diacriticalmark #spanishpunctuation #espanol #spanish #spanishflag #cachaca #cedilla #cedillas #thecedilla #cedilha #typography #type #lettering #letters #spanishlettering #pencilonpaper #coloursofspain #language #spanishlanguage

[daintydoraposts]

Day 24/100: The Ring Diacritic '°' or the 'angstrom' (I've not got the correct accents to type this word correctly, alas). It typically sits above letters a, o & u in languages such as Danish, Norwegian & Swedish, considered part of the letter itself, but distinct from the letter when present without the ring. It is also present in Czech but goes by a different name (Krouzek). I find it fascinating how languages & grammar rules manifest & the differences in alphabets & most commonly used letters differ across the languages. I chose this one today in honour of @by.smilinthyme & @huus57 & the conversation around yesterday's 'umlaut' - thanks again for chiming in! [Ink on card, colours inverted] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #thepunctuationproject #punctuation #punctuationmarks #punctuationpoints #diacritical #diacriticalmarks #theringdiacritic #ringdiacritic #graphicdesign #letters #letterart #typography #typographydesign #blackink #ink #blackandwhite #digitaldesign #a #swedish #swedishalphabet #danishalphabet #alphabet #language #grammar #grammermarks