Shouts & Murmurs Not-So-Special Characters: The Biggest Grifters, Frauds, and Outright Nobodies on Today’s Typographical Scene ...

With predictive text anticipating the next character, a typist on T9 averaged just 1.4 strokes per character, says Valenti. For reference, common Chinese characters are made up of nine strokes on ...

Keith Houston, whose Shady Characters blog was the forerunner of his “Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks” (Norton), is a tireless researcher ...

Since the beginning of time -- or at least since email was invented -- most email services have required the use of non-accented characters from the Latin alphabet for each individual's address ...