Timeline for What are these characters from the OS X keyboard?
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| May 13, 2014 at 20:45 | comment | added | ghoppe |
Actually, ligatures weren't invented with metal type, they have been around since the development of writing. Sumerian cuneiform had ligatures. Hand-written manuscripts used many ligatures including et (latin for and) which developed into the ampersand &.
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| May 13, 2014 at 20:26 | history | answered | Chris Paveglio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |