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>Does it change in the time? Or is it a style?

AFAIK, both. IIRC, the pilcrow was originally based on the letter "c" (see Jenson). Don't remember why exactly. The "modern" pilcrow have two thin vertical strokes, but I don't why either...

unknown

Typophile Advanced Search is great. There are some information about the development of the pilcrow in this past thread.

unknown

Thanks for digging up that link, Eduardo.

The Pilcrow is a great character to get creative with. The one thing to keep in mind though is this: it might seem intuitive to make it match the color of the alphabetic characters in the font, but this ruins its functionality. The Pilcrow has to be dark to work right.

hhp

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In spanish it�s called "Calderon"

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