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Tag: typography

Posted on 27 August 201212 February 2013

Where did the @ Symbol come from? We use it everyday but have you thought of where it came from? Turns out that it has several possible origins from a medieval Monk shorthand in Latin transcriptions to French penmanship to Florentine merchants setting pricing per unit measurement.  However it was  Ray Tomlinson in 1971 that made it into the…

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