"Coming Together" a Font Full of Ampersands to Benefit Haiti

“Coming Together” a Font Full of Ampersands to Benefit Haiti

Tue, Feb 23, 2010

You can never have enough beautiful ampersands (&). Headlines need them, invitations need them, advertisements need them… and now “Font Aid” needs you.

The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) has released “Coming Together”, a font created exclusively for Font Aid IV to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. For just $20, you can have this beautiful OpenType font containing more than 400 ampersands designed by type designers, graphic designers, and other artists from around the world.

For full information and to buy the font, go to Font Aid’s website.

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Jay Nelson - who has written 856 posts on Planet Quark.

Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay has a monthly Fonts column in Macworld, writes for several other publications and speaks at industry events.

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