"Letters and Colours Letters & Colours were an English band from Sheffield who became known for their combination of early 1980s new wave and disco beats. They gained recognition along with the New Yorkshire and nu rave scenes, and groups such as Bloc Party, Interpol, Editors and The Departure. They list The Cure, Depeche Mode and The Smiths as influences and were compared to such groups, as well as Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, Bauhaus, Artery and Comsat Angels. Letters & Colours combined a heavy, repetitive rhythm section with lush, melodic guitar and haunting vocals. This created a bleak"
"Typographic ligature In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph. An example is the character ""æ"" as used in English, in which the letters ""a"" and ""e"" are joined. The common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters ""e"" and ""t"" (spelling ""et"", from the Latin for ""and"") were combined. The origin of typographical ligatures comes from the invention of writing with a stylus on fibrous material (like paper) or clay. Businessmen especially who needed a way to speed up the process of"
"E E (named ""e"" , plural ""ees"") is the fifth letter and the second vowel in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter ""hê"", which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure (""hillul"" 'jubilation'), and was probably based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated"
"Tie (typography) The tie is a symbol in the shape of an arc similar to a large breve, used in Greek, phonetic alphabets, and Z notation. It can be used between two characters with spacing as punctuation, or non-spacing as a diacritic. It can be above or below, and reversed. Its forms are called tie, double breve, enotikon or papyrological hyphen, ligature tie, and undertie. The enotikon (, ""enōtikón"", ""uniter""), papyrological hyphen, or Greek hyphen was a low tie mark found in late Classical and Byzantine papyri. In an era when Greek texts were typically written ""scripta continua"", the enotikon"
"Titlo Titlo is an extended diacritic symbol initially used in early Cyrillic manuscripts, e.g., in Old Church Slavonic and Old East Slavic languages. The word is a borrowing from the Greek """", ""title"" (compare dated English ""tittle"", see tilde). The titlo still appears in inscriptions on modern icons and in service books printed in Church Slavonic. The titlo is drawn as a zigzag line over a text. The usual form is short stroke up, falling slanted line, short stroke up; an alternative is like a sideways square bracket: short stroke up, horizontal line, short stroke down. The titlo has several"
"the letter T) between the Greek letters Α and ω (alpha and omega) surmounted with little crosses. Below the letter T, there is another cross placed within a cloud or flower with twelve petals. On the chamfered edge around this design runs a circular Latin inscription in two rings which reads: ""Rec figura talet ad amorem regum / et principum iras iudicum"" (""This sign rouses the love of kings and princes, the wrath of judges""). The grip bears the symbols of two of the Four Evangelists: the lion of Saint Mark and the ox of Saint Luke, as well as"
"to be pronounced the same as epsilon. In essence, the uppercase form of epsilon looks identical to Latin E. The lowercase version has two typographical variants, both inherited from medieval Greek handwriting. One, the most common in modern typography and inherited from medieval minuscule, looks like a reversed ""3"". The other, also known as lunate or uncial epsilon and inherited from earlier uncial writing, looks like a semicircle crossed by a horizontal bar. While in normal typography these are just alternative font variants, they may have different meanings as mathematical symbols. Computer systems therefore offer distinct encodings for them. In"
"sometimes it is instead called the """"Eta"" theorem"", as the capital Greek letter ""Eta"" (""Η"") is undistinguishable from the capital version of Latin letter ""h"" (""H"")""."" Discussions have been raised on how the symbol should be understood, but it remains unclear due to the lack of written sources from the time of the theorem. Studies of the typography and the work of J.W. Gibbs, seem to favour the interpretation of ""H"" as ""Eta"". The ""H"" value is determined from the function ""f""(""E"", ""t"") ""dE"", which is the energy distribution function of molecules at time ""t"". The value ""f""(""E"", ""t"") ""dE"""
"Tilde The tilde ( or ; ˜ or ~) is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish and from Portuguese, which in turn came from the Latin ""titulus"", meaning ""title"" or ""superscription"". The reason for the name was that it was originally written over a letter as a scribal abbreviation, as a ""mark of suspension"", shown as a straight line when used with capitals. Thus the commonly used words ""Anno Domini"" were frequently abbreviated to ""A Dñi"", an elevated terminal with a suspension mark placed over the ""n"". Such a mark could"
"abbreviations, such as & for ""et""), and as non-standard. These do see use, particularly in handwriting or decoration, but also in some cases in print. In Chinese, these ligatures are called ""héwén"" (), ""héshū"" () or hétǐzì (), and in the special case of combining two characters, these are known as ""two-syllable Chinese characters"" (, ). A commonly seen example is the double happiness symbol , formed as a ligature of and referred to by its disyllabic name (). In handwriting, numbers are very frequently squeezed into one space or combined – common ligatures include ""niàn,"" ""twenty"", normally read as"
"T T (named ""tee"" ) is the 20th letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in English-language texts. ""Taw"" was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. The sound value of Semitic ""Taw"", Greek alphabet Tαυ (""Tau""), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in most of these alphabets. In English, usually denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive ( and X-SAMPA: ), as in"
"letters a, b, c indicating other printings of the same title. When appropriate, the second line may begin with a 'form' number—e.g., 1 stands for history and criticism of a subject, 2 for a bibliography, 5 for a dictionary, 6 for an atlas or maps, 7 for a periodical, 8 for a society or university publication, 9 for a collection of works by different authors. On the third line a capital Y indicates a work about the author or book represented by the first two lines, and a capital E (for English—other letters are used for other languages) indicates a"
"are still used in English and other European languages; the Latin ampersand (&) replaces the conjunction ""and"" in English, ""et"" in Latin and French, and ""y"" in Spanish (but its use in Spanish is frowned upon, since the ""y"" is already smaller and easier to write). The Tironian sign ⁊, resembling the digit seven (""7""), represents the conjunction ""et"" and is written only to the x-height; in current Irish language usage, the siglum denotes the conjunction ""agus"" (""and""). Other scribal abbreviations in modern typographic use are the percentage sign (%), from the Italian ""per cento"" (""per hundred""); the permille sign"
"was originally a ligature of E and t, forming the Latin word ""et"", meaning """"and"""". It has exactly the same use in French and in English. The ampersand comes in many different forms. Because of its ubiquity, it is generally no longer considered a ligature, but a logogram. Like many other ligatures, it has at times been considered a letter (e.g., in early Modern English); in English it is pronounced ""and"", not ""et"", except in the case of ""&c"", pronounced ""et cetera"". In most fonts, it does not immediately resemble the two letters used to form it, although certain typefaces"
"especially when heard over the telephone or a radio communications link. Spelling alphabets such as the ICAO spelling alphabet, used by aircraft pilots, police and others, are designed to eliminate this potential confusion by giving each letter a name that sounds quite different from any other. The letter most commonly used in English is E. The least used letter is Z. The frequencies shown in the table may differ in practice according to the type of text. The & has sometimes appeared at the end of the English alphabet, as in Byrhtferð's list of letters in 1011. Historically, the figure"
"all kinds were extremely common; figures 2 and 3 from the middle of 4th century are examples of how the et-ligature could look in this script. During the later development of the Latin script leading up to Carolingian minuscule (9th century) the use of ligatures in general diminished. The et-ligature, however, continued to be used and gradually became more stylized and less revealing of its origin (figures 4–6). The modern italic type ampersand is a kind of ""et"" ligature that goes back to the cursive scripts developed during the Renaissance. After the advent of printing in Europe in 1455, printers"
"is usually made up of a number of different name–value pairs, each separated by the ampersand symbol, &. For example, codice_10. Ampersand The ampersand is the logogram &, representing the conjunction ""and"". It originated as a ligature of the letters ""et""—Latin for ""and"". The word ""ampersand"" is a corruption of the phrase ""and ""per se"" & (and)"", meaning ""and by itself ""and"" (represented by the symbol &)"". Traditionally, when reciting the alphabet in English-speaking schools, any letter that could also be used as a word in itself (""A"", ""I"", and, at one point, ""O"") was repeated with the Latin expression"
"Titulus (inscription) Titulus (Latin ""inscription"" or ""label"", the plural ""tituli"" is also used in English) is a term used for the labels or captions naming figures or subjects in art, which were commonly added in classical and medieval art, and remain conventional in Eastern Orthodox icons. In particular the term describes the conventional inscriptions on stone that listed the honours of an individual or that identified boundaries in the Roman Empire. A Titulus pictus is a merchant's mark or other commercial inscription. The sense of ""title"", as in ""book title"", in modern English derives from this artistic sense, just as"
"better works. In British Sign Language (BSL), the letter 'e' is signed by extending the index finger of the right hand touching the tip of index on the left hand, with all fingers of left hand open. E E (named ""e"" , plural ""ees"") is the fifth letter and the second vowel in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon,"
"Th (digraph) Th is a digraph in the Latin script. It was originally introduced into Latin to transliterate Greek loan words. In modern languages that use the Latin alphabet, it represents a number of different sounds. It is the most common digraph in order of frequency in the English language. The most logical use of is to represent a consonant cluster of the phonemes /t/ and /h/, as in English ""knighthood"". This is not a digraph, since a digraph is a pair of letters representing a single phoneme or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal"
"the degree symbol (e.g., 10 °C). However, in many works with professional typesetting, including scientific works published by the University of Chicago Press or Oxford University Press, the degree symbol is printed with no spaces between the number, the symbol, and the Latin letters ""C"" or ""F"" representing Celsius or Fahrenheit, respectively (e.g., 10°C). This is also the practice of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which operates the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Though not recommended, use of the degree symbol without a following Latin letter is done so without a space between the number and symbol (e.g., 10°);"
"It featured a white background with two stylised curved ""E""s facing each other. Dubbed the """" (jubilee symbol), it attracted criticism from some Esperantists, who dubbed it the """" (melon) because of the design's elliptical shape. It is still in use, though to a lesser degree than the traditional symbol, known as the """" (green star). Esperanto has been placed in many proposed political situations. The most popular of these is the Europe–Democracy–Esperanto, which aims to establish Esperanto as the official language of the European Union. Grin's Report, published in 2005 by François Grin, found that the use of English"
"devices and include The University of Chicago devices that have appeared on the cover of their publication ""The Library Quarterly"". Printers' devices have been incorporated in American library buildings, as a reflection of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Printer's mark A printer's mark, device, emblem or insignia was a symbol used as a trademark by early printers starting in the 15th century. The first printer's mark is found in the 1457 Mainz Psalter by Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer. One of the most well-known old printer's marks is the dolphin and anchor, first used by the Venetian printer Aldus"
"proper, ’, a single quotation mark, or the prime symbol. Some typewriters have ""non-spacing"" keys used as diacritical marks. After the typist pushes, say, acute accent ◌́ the caret does not move. This allows the typist to overstrike this mark by a spacing letter, say, e and obtain é, an accented letter. Due to geometrical restrictions of a monospaced font, the result could not always be perfect. For example, overstriking unlikely was a feasible method to produce uppercase accented letters, such as É. Overstrike was used on line printers for the same goal. This contributed to standardization of such characters"
"has been derived from frequency of use (FoU) statistics, plus additional considerations, such as the most frequent two- and three-letter combinations found in words. As much as possible, such combinations need to be placed as non-blocking sequences. Whilst the letter E is normally regarded as the most common letter in the English language, one should not ignore the Space character, as it is nearly twice as frequent; additionally, in punctuation, the comma and full-stop are more frequent than the letters KVJZXQ. Directional or cursor keys have also been subject to changes in design approach. Whilst the earlier PC-XT compatible Model"
"Cyrillic-alphabet ""Э"", the first letter of ""Эсперанто"", the Russian name for Esperanto—on a white field). This symbol was created in 1987 by a Brazilian Esperantist to mark the centenary of the creation of Esperanto. On the other hand, this new symbol is derogatively called ""the melon"" () by some. Most Esperantists, however, continue to hold the ""verda stelo"" dear as a symbol of international or supranational solidarity, and regard the preference of one symbol over another as a purely personal choice. At most Esperanto congresses, all three main symbols can be seen in use on displays or being worn as"
"""tired"". And, rarely, it is silent in initial position, as in Scottish Gaelic ""thu"" ""you"". In English the in ""asthma"" and ""clothes"" is often silent. is used for phonetic notation in some dictionaries. Th (digraph) Th is a digraph in the Latin script. It was originally introduced into Latin to transliterate Greek loan words. In modern languages that use the Latin alphabet, it represents a number of different sounds. It is the most common digraph in order of frequency in the English language. The most logical use of is to represent a consonant cluster of the phonemes /t/ and /h/,"
"Tau Cross The tau cross is a T-shaped cross all three ends of which are sometimes expanded. It is so called because shaped like the Greek letter tau, which in its upper-case form has the same appearance as Latin and English T. Another name for the same object is Saint Anthony's cross or Saint Anthony cross, a name given to it because of its association with Saint Anthony of Egypt. It is also called a ""crux commissa"", one of the four basic types of iconographic representations of the cross. The Greek letter tau was used as a numeral for 300."
"Esperanto jubilee symbol The Esperanto jubilee symbol () is a cultural symbol that was created in 1987 to mark the 100th anniversary of Esperanto. Because of its shape, the symbol is sometimes informally called the melon (""melono""), egg (""ovo"") or football (""rugbea pilko""). With a Latin E on one side and a Cyrillic Э (for ""Эсперанто"") on the other, it can be interpreted as being inclusive of East and West. At the time, the Cold War was waged between the United States and the Soviet Union, and they represented the largest enemies in the world. The desire for a more"
"D with stroke Đ (lowercase: đ, Latin alphabet), known as crossed D or dyet, is a letter formed from the base character D/d overlaid with a crossbar. Crossing was used to create eth (ð), but eth has an uncial as its base whereas ""đ"" is based on the straight-backed roman ""d"". Crossed ""d"" is a letter in the alphabets of several languages and is used in linguistics as a phonetic symbol. In the lowercase, the crossbar is usually drawn through the ascender, but when used as a phonetic symbol it may be preferred to draw it through the bowl, in"
"for the suffix -et and the conjunction et) and et cetera. Moreover, besides scribal abbreviations, ancient texts also contained variant typographic characters, including ligatures (e.g. Æ, Œ, etc.), the long s (ſ), and the half r, resembling an Arabic numeral two (""2""). The ""u"" and ""v"" characters originated as scribal variants for their respective letters, likewise the ""i"" and ""j"" pair. Modern publishers printing Latin-language works replace variant typography and sigla with full-form Latin spellings; the convention of using ""u"" and ""i"" for vowels and ""v"" and ""j"" for consonants is a late typographic development. Some ancient and medieval sigla"
"(Latin: ""Sacred names"") tradition of using contractions for certain frequently occurring names in Greek Scriptures. A short titlo is placed over a single letter or over an entire abbreviation; a long titlo is placed over a whole word. A further meaning was in its use in manuscripts, where the titlo was often used to mark the place where a scribe accidentally skipped the letter, if there was no space to draw the missed letter above. Titlo is encoded in Unicode as , and . Titlo Titlo is an extended diacritic symbol initially used in early Cyrillic manuscripts, e.g., in Old"
"Double T The Double T is a logo that is the most readily identified symbol of Texas Tech University. The Double T is generally attributed to Texas Tech University's, then Texas Technological College, first football coach, E. Y. Freeland, and assistant coach, Grady Higginbotham. The Double T's design draws upon the popular block T of the Texas A&M University logo, Higginbotham's alma mater. It was first used as decoration on the sweaters for the football players during the college's 1926 football season. The Double T became the official logo of the school in 1963. By the 1960s, the school had"