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LaTeX ligatures
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Unicode-based Easter Egg johndcook.com/blog/2026/09/0…
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The history of typography vimeo.com/65353988#

The History of Typography - Animated Short

A paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography. 291 Paper Letters. 2,454 Photographs. 140 hours of work. Created by Ben Barrett-Forrest © Forrest Media - 2013 www.forrestmedia.org...

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Currency symbols often have parallel lines.
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Removing Unicode formatting johndcook.com/blog/2021/07/1…
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Most legible font for Base58 encoding johndcook.com/blog/2025/07/3…
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Drawing a Christmas tree in LaTeX with TikZ
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"Why don't you just type Unicode characters?" Because my keyboard has less than 150,000 keys.
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The history of typography vimeo.com/65353988#

The History of Typography - Animated Short

A paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography. 291 Paper Letters. 2,454 Photographs. 140 hours of work. Created by Ben Barrett-Forrest © Forrest Media - 2013 www.forrestmedia.org...

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You can create actuarial symbo with the LaTeX package actuarialangle. The image below can be made with either \actuarialangle{n} or the shortcut \angln.
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New symbols in Unicode 17.0 johndcook.com/blog/2025/09/1…
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