Many of the most common symbols on our keyboards have fascinating origin stories. Some, such as the zero, we now take for granted—yet the idea of denoting an absence of value was not present in ...

We haven't seen a typographical resurrection like it since the @, an obscure accounting symbol meaning "at the rate of", was pressed into service to form the first email address in 1971. According to ...

Did you know that the typographical symbol of a little hand that points the way is called a manicule and dates to 1086? Or that the octothorpe, the symbol used to identify a Twitter hashtag, has a ...

Uday Kumar, the brain behind the new rupee symbol, will discuss typography at an international event in the National Institute of Design (NID) next month. AHMEDABAD: Uday Kumar, the brain behind the ...