Have a look at this.

I would vote a period the most powerful.

Lc g is perennially popular.

House Industries is selling a 3D ampersand that might fit the bill.

The folks from House Industries have produced a beautiful 3d ampersand. That would be my choice: unlike the $, it is a character that connects. And there are lots of fantastic incarnations. In the (translated) words of Andreas Stötzner:

Along with the chair and the door handle, the Latin alphabet has become a true design classic. All evolving generations anew try their hands at it. And within this task, the ‘et’ ligature is still – and just again – what the cadenza is to the soloist in a concert – the freely played crowning volta, where imagination and skill can trenchantly be brought to bear. — [Signa 2]

>Any interesting ideas?

The Swastika?

Edit: I probably shouldn't comment. Although it would look good on a T-shirt. But only seven people would get the joke.

I usually don't get to excited about holiday lights in December.

I help Cheryl put them up, that's it. But one Sunday while shoveling snow I got an idea. I bought 16 feet of small white LED lights and arranged them upon the metal armature that had held last year's wreath. The resulting "peace" symbol is nailed to the roof of the garage and is lit up every evening at dusk. I may have to leave it up there forever.

peace

powers

What is the meaning of that, John ?

A honking big 3D monogram of your initials would tell the world who the man is.
Or your wife's, if she's the boss :-)

@Alessandro: I don’t know what it is, but it is in all the ClearType fonts.

Wow – I noticed that symbol posted by John recently (in Calibri) and almost posted here to ask about it. Please do enlighten us, John :)

Photo please, Will!

what about ♥?

John, this is so powerful! It's good you uploaded a raster image, if we would see pure beziers we may die!

infinity symbol

ChrisL

Maybe the comma? More wars and lawsuits have been started over misplaced commas than for any other reason.

I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to explain what this glyph does (and it does, rather than means, which is why it is perhaps uniquely powerful). I've signed so many NDAs that I'm amazed to open my mouth in public at all. But this glyph is included, as others have noted, in all the MS ClearType fonts. To tell the truth, I don't think I fully understand what it does or, rather, I know what it does but I don't understand the significance of what it does.

Si, I'll take one of those t-shirts.

You know, Jimmy Page made up his own symbol:

and Prince made up his own symbol:

Well, inspired by these examples, Bill Gates wanted to have his own symbol too. And now it's in all the ClearType fonts ;)

>I’m not sure whether I’m allowed to explain what this glyph does

Let a thousand conspiracy theories bloom ;-)

>Well, inspired by these examples, Bill Gates wanted to have his own symbol too. And now it’s in all the ClearType fonts ;)

That's a good start! ;-)

It is like Trap Street on maps?
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The Cross + is probably the most powerful symbol! That's why it has been misused so much.
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amazing!

LOL:!!!

ChrisL

Be careful people, or *they* will shut us down! We know too much.

Brian,
That is just gorgeous! Is it for real or just something you just put together?

ChrisL

It's a genuine Chinese character, so I can't take credit for it! It's the character 悲, meaning "sorrow", and it was the first thing I thought of when I saw John's symbol.

I'm glad this thread came up, because my toast looked funny this morning and I'm hoping one of you can tell me what it might mean.

Ehague, ROTFL!

The Swastika?

Although many nations use it, the diabolical Nazi's have turned into a piece of Sh*t.

Maybe this is just a wild guess, but considering the fact that it is in all Cleartype fonts, and judging from the specifics of the glyph, my opinion is that the mysterious symbol posted by John has something to do with the font-hinting specifics in Cleartype collection. Maybe for testing exact delta-hinting details? It has all the prerequisites for this - adequate X-height, single bar in the middle and many bars outside, which would help locating discrepancies in hinting.

What stumbles me is the fact that even in the italics it is still upright... but with so many NDAs I do not believe there is any hope to find out soon what really this glyph does.

The filename of John's graphic includes "ctsecglyph" - so if "ct" means ClearType, "sec" may have something to do with SECURITY. It may be that Microsoft has some intentions of

Hold on, there's a knock on my door. I'll have to finish this post later.

"Do I choose one based simply on it’s form, or perhaps one based upon it’s political history, or one that was[...]?"

Duh a. Don't any of you people know how to work with a client?

What, my good man, is the 1st letter of your wife's name?

Cheers!

I would definitely go with a question mark.

hopefully your home is already 'full' of the most important glyph: space.

hopefully your home is already ’full’ of the most important glyph: space.

Nah, my *head's* full of that!

>>>Hold on, there’s a knock on my door. I’ll have to finish this post later.

Craig, are you still there? Sorry it's taken me a day to ask the question.

I'm still here, but since I like my kneecaps as they are, I'll refrain from saying anything more. :-)

Spotted this in my type history class today.

The Hunminjeongeum Eonhaebon, 1446, Korea. Notice the second character from the top in the leftmost line.

It looks like the hairy H syndrome :-)

ChrisL

dezcom, I guess that's what happens when you leave your H out in the rain.

That is better than cake at least :-)

ChrisL

Chris, do you mean those with all the sweet green icing flowing down?

Was just going through the old photo archives.

Update:
I asked my friend about that photograph, he says he did notice the strange indentation, and did a bit of research, finding other examples that could possibly be all linked.

With his kind permission, I am posting one of them.

I guess this thing goes pretty far back.
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hmm, your nickname is "Budhaboy" so why not consider the Aum (or ohm) sign?

Duh, the Uniglyph:
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/ss_uniglyph1.html

hhp

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"I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it..." :-)

ChrisL

"the Uniglyph"

:-) That is awesome. Now I'm scared I'm going to start seeing this one everywhere as well.

I noticed the sky. Problem might be much bigger than we think!

Hrant, Is that available in a sans?

This is a pretty powerful glyph.

-=®=-

Another curious find. Seems to resemble square kufi.

Get ;) it will register for anyone who sees it!

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LOL... guys it's been great reading through the thread... The hairy H is making me smile - what the heck is it? Some masonic symbol?

I like the idea of the Zero... given it's form and meaning is universally profound and only relatively recently understood as the mathematical zero a few centuries ago - I guess infinity comes a close second.

It's a tough one to be sure... I'll keep reading, but will definitely post back with the results... Wifey now thinks I'm nuts - which is amazing really, given she should have realised as much when we met.

miha

I like the pix, it's kinda cool!

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