Might I also recommend Keith Houston's wonderful book "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punc­tu­ation, Sym­bols, & Other Ty­po­graph­ical Marks":

https://shadycharacters.co.uk/books/shady-characters-the-boo...

He also posts, with some regularity, to his blog on the same topic:

https://shadycharacters.co.uk/

Employing the correct usage of hyphens, en dashes and em dashes continues to be a small daily joy for me.

My favorite nearly-unknown punctuation mark has to be the interrobang. I like it so much I commissioned a local ceramic artist (Liz Crain of Capitola, CA) to make this piece:

https://geary.smugmug.com/Art/i-qCBqjqb/A

Liz's husband is a retired typesetter, so a lot of her pieces feature typographic themes.

https://www.lizcrainceramics.com/

Any questions‽

TIL about cone top cans: https://www.decades.com/lists/a-visual-history-of-the-beer-c...

I like the knitted ceramics. They led me to both the masculine ceramic plate (for use in a plate carrier) and the more feminine https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1y8NoXCRHhU/TEzv7MBIsxI/AAAAAAAAA...

Not sure if business =.= or art project: https://www.vollebak.com/product/full-metal-jacket-black/ (it must be couture?)

So Isidore, encyclopedist and patron saint of the internet, is also the inventor of special characters? How appropriate.

The article starts by mentioning single quotes but never says where they are coming from