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"id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae477303118", "title": "Emoji, part 6a: the trouble with emoji", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2019/02/emoji-part-6a-the-trouble-with-emoji/", "published_at": "2019-02-13T15:41:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae4775d4e6c", "title": "Emoji, part 5: a trending topic", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2018/12/emoji-part-5-a-trending-topic/", "published_at": "2018-12-31T19:05:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae478129cbe", "title": "Emoji, part 4: who owns emoji?", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2018/11/emoji-part-4-who-owns-emoji/", "published_at": "2018-11-10T12:11:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae47833b821", "title": "Emoji, part 3: go west", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2018/10/emoji-part-3-go-west/", "published_at": "2018-10-14T20:43:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e460-71b6-83a9-2ae4786acf37", "title": "Emoji, part 2: what went before", "url": 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"https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/12/2016-gift-guide/", "published_at": "2016-12-11T22:48:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da07305853", "title": "The Metallic Ink of Herculaneum", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/12/metallic-ink-herculaneum/", "published_at": "2016-12-04T20:57:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da07de8ebf", "title": "A baby and a pause (and a vote?) for Shady Characters", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/11/shady-characters-break/", "published_at": "2016-11-06T22:09:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da0890ca02", "title": "Miscellany № 78: catching up", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/10/miscellany-78/", "published_at": "2016-10-10T22:09:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da0900680f", "title": "The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration at the St Bride Foundation, London, on 23rd March, 2017", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/10/st-bride-foundation-23rd-march-2017/", "published_at": "2016-10-03T21:13:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da091c6c79", "title": "Miscellany № 77: amperbrand", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/09/miscellany-77-amperbrand/", "published_at": "2016-09-25T18:19:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da09b697c0", "title": "The Book publication round-up", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/09/book-publication-round-up/", "published_at": "2016-09-19T21:07:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da0a3acb4f", "title": "Shady Characters at I Love Typography: The Prints and the Pauper", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/09/shady-characters-at-i-love-typography-the-prints-and-the-pauper/", "published_at": "2016-09-04T20:34:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da0b32371a", "title": "Shady Characters at the BBC: The mysterious ancient origins of the book", "url": 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Period?", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/06/miscellany-75-full-stop/", "published_at": "2016-06-13T15:50:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da120033ba", "title": "Miscellany № 74: zombies always make a hash of things", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/05/miscellany-74-zombie-octothorpe/", "published_at": "2016-05-30T21:00:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da125b48f5", "title": "Shady Characters at the BBC: Word of Mouth, 24th May", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/05/shady-characters-at-the-bbc-word-of-mouth-24th-may/", "published_at": "2016-05-23T14:20:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da12cb09d3", "title": "Miscellany № 73: per Churchill et commata", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/05/micellany-73-churchill/", "published_at": "2016-05-09T20:33:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da13995448", "title": "Miscellany № 72: sections and shillings", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/04/miscellany-72-banknote/", "published_at": "2016-04-24T15:32:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da140248af", "title": "More on The Book", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/04/more-on-the-book/", "published_at": "2016-04-11T23:53:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da148cc9fb", "title": "№ ⸮ ‽ ℔ ⁊ ⸿  — or, a cavalcade of characters", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/03/a-cavalcade-of-characters/", "published_at": "2016-03-27T15:35:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da1509485d", "title": "Miscellany № 71 — ‘⋮’ redux", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/03/miscellany-71/", "published_at": "2016-03-13T17:39:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da155027fa", "title": "Miscellany № 70 — '⋮', '⌨︎' & '¶'", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/02/typewriters-and-pilcrows/", "published_at": "2016-02-28T22:26:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da15d4e70e", "title": "Shady Characters at the New York Times", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/02/circumflex-nyt/", "published_at": "2016-02-22T21:50:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da162a3fee", "title": "The Book, revealed!", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/02/the-book-revealed/", "published_at": "2016-02-21T20:20:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da16aa1507", "title": "A spring clean for Shady Characters", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/02/a-spring-clean/", "published_at": "2016-02-14T18:39:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da175d89ff", "title": "Miscellany № 69: the hyphen resolved", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/02/miscellany-69/", "published_at": "2016-02-01T22:21:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da177b4020", "title": "Miscellany № 68: new year, new interrobang", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/01/miscellany-68-interrobang/", "published_at": "2016-01-18T23:18:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da17f7e2fd", "title": "Shady Characters in Polish is Ciemne typki", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/01/shady-characters-polish/", "published_at": "2016-01-04T20:16:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da18bc67ed", "title": "The 2015 Shady Characters gift guide", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/12/gift-guide-2015/", "published_at": "2015-12-13T22:20:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da1937dc52", "title": "Miscellany № 67: irony's restoration", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/11/miscellany-67-irony-restoration/", "published_at": "2015-11-23T22:15:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da1a058476", "title": "Shady Characters at the BBC: punctuation that failed to make its mark", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/11/punctuation-that-failed-to-make-its-mark/", "published_at": "2015-11-08T19:26:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da1a069ff3", "title": "Miscellany № 66: catching up", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/10/miscellany-66/", "published_at": "2015-10-25T13:24:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da1b00aadc", "title": "Logarithmical: Zipf's Law and the mathematics of punctuation", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/10/zipfs-law/", "published_at": "2015-10-04T22:44:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da1b5a23c1", "title": "Miscellany № 65: from gnomonology to palaeography", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/09/miscellany-65-palaeography/", "published_at": "2015-09-20T22:51:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da1bf00c19", "title": "Shady Characters at the BBC", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/09/shady-characters-at-the-bbc/", "published_at": "2015-09-02T19:15:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e461-7244-8acc-63da1c8c1d3d", "title": "Miscellany № 64: let's gnomonise", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/08/miscellany-gnomons/", "published_at": "2015-08-17T22:22:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0da52c560b", "title": "Miscellany № 63: punctuating the summer", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/07/miscellany-63/", "published_at": "2015-07-23T22:31:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0da5f543e2", "title": "The imminent death of the paragraph", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/07/death-of-the-para/", "published_at": "2015-07-12T20:53:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0da62975a2", "title": "Punctuation in Practice: a Workshop", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/06/punctuation-workshop/", "published_at": "2015-06-28T19:08:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0da6a61aeb", "title": "A reminder: how to subscribe to Shady Characters", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/06/how-to-subscribe/", "published_at": "2015-06-16T17:09:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0da754205d", "title": "It's (traditional Chinese) paperback publication day!", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/06/chinese-complex-characters-edition/", "published_at": "2015-06-08T20:47:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0da84e52c9", "title": "Miscellany № 62: the absence of punctuation", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/05/miscellany-62/", "published_at": "2015-05-26T20:02:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0da92aa144", "title": "Pilcrows in the service of science: a Shady Characters field trip", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/05/crawford-library/", "published_at": "2015-05-11T19:13:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0da931e894", "title": "A brief history of the # and the @", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/04/octothorpe-and-at-symbol/", "published_at": "2015-04-26T22:22:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0da9fe4844", "title": "Miscellany № 61: verbal irony seeks meaningful relationship. No, really.", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/04/miscellany-61-irony-mark/", "published_at": "2015-04-13T21:52:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0daa6e9b62", "title": "Miscellany № 60: the secret life of the tilde", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/03/miscellany-60-tilde/", "published_at": "2015-03-30T20:12:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0daa93540f", "title": "Miscellany № 59: the percent sign", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/03/percent-sign/", "published_at": "2015-03-17T23:05:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0daac24daa", "title": "UK paperback competition: the winners!", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/03/uk-paperback-winners/", "published_at": "2015-03-01T18:39:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087de-e462-701a-800c-ae0dab9eb89d", "title": "It's paperback publication day (again, sort of)!", "url": "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/02/uk-paperback/", "published_at": "2015-02-15T13:52:24+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2020

Emoji: the future of text?original ↗
13 Dec 2020
Miscellany № 89: 2020, year of the asteriskoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2020
Miscellany № 88½: come for the punctuation, stay for the street signsoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2020
Miscellany № 88: a tale of two signsoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2020
Miscellany № 87: a coronavirus conundrumoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2020
Miscellany № 86: back in the saddleoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2020
Shady Characters on Glenn Fleishman's Tiny Typecastoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2020
Emoji, part 10: state of the nationoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2020

2019

The Book (책의 책) is now available in Korean!original ↗
10 Dec 2019
Emoji, part 9: going beyondoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2019
Emoji, part 8: when is an emoji not an emoji?original ↗
31 Aug 2019
Emoji, part 7: the emoji tongueoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2019
“Collections and Collaborations” posters now available!original ↗
2 Jun 2019
“Collections and Collaborations” at the St Bride Foundation, London, on 14th May, 2019original ↗
1 May 2019
Emoji, part 6c: to infinity…and beyond‽original ↗
28 Apr 2019
Emoji, part 6b: steps in the right directionoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2019
The Book (書的大歷史) is now available in Chinese!original ↗
17 Mar 2019
Emoji, part 6a: the trouble with emojioriginal ↗
13 Feb 2019

2018

Emoji, part 5: a trending topicoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2018
Emoji, part 4: who owns emoji?original ↗
10 Nov 2018
Emoji, part 3: go westoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2018
Emoji, part 2: what went beforeoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2018
Emoji, part 1: in the beginningoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2018
The interrobang on 99% Invisible‽original ↗
15 Jul 2018
Housekeeping № 3: moving to HTTPSoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2018
Miscellany № 85: you only have one *original ↗
16 Jun 2018
Housekeeping № 2: citations at Shady Charactersoriginal ↗
29 May 2018
The Book at the BBC: Book of the Weekoriginal ↗
13 May 2018
Housekeeping: your data at Shady Charactersoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2018
Miscellany № 84: zut alors!original ↗
5 Feb 2018

2017

The 2017 Shady Characters gift guideoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2017
Miscellany № 83: Thomas Jefferson's ivory polyptychoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2017
Miscellany № 82: the Future (and the Past) of Textoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2017
Miscellany № 81: Toward a Taxonomy of the Interrobangoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2017
Miscellany № 80: irony archaeologyoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2017
The Book at the British Library on Monday 3rd Julyoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2017
Miscellany № 79: jè?original ↗
11 Jun 2017
The Book: A Talk at the British Library on Monday 3rd Julyoriginal ↗
28 May 2017
Książka: The Book is now available in Polishoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2017
St Bride competition: the winners!original ↗
20 Mar 2017
Win tickets to "The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration" at the St Bride Foundation, Londonoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2017
Shady Characters at Adelaide Writers' Week!original ↗
26 Feb 2017
Paper Adaptationsoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2017

2016

The 2016 Shady Char­ac­ters gift guide (sort of)original ↗
11 Dec 2016
The Metallic Ink of Herculaneumoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2016
A baby and a pause (and a vote?) for Shady Charactersoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2016
Miscellany № 78: catching uporiginal ↗
10 Oct 2016
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration at the St Bride Foundation, London, on 23rd March, 2017original ↗
3 Oct 2016
Miscellany № 77: amperbrandoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2016
The Book publication round-uporiginal ↗
19 Sept 2016
Shady Characters at I Love Typography: The Prints and the Pauperoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2016
Shady Characters at the BBC: The mysterious ancient origins of the bookoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2016
And the winners are…original ↗
28 Aug 2016
It's US publication day!original ↗
23 Aug 2016
We have a winner -- and the final competition!original ↗
22 Aug 2016
We have a winner -- and a new competition!original ↗
15 Aug 2016
Booking It № 3: Movable Type at Robert Smail's Printing Worksoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2016
It's publication day!original ↗
12 Aug 2016
Win a copy of The Book!original ↗
8 Aug 2016
Booking It № 2: Woodcut Printing at the Lavender Print Schooloriginal ↗
31 Jul 2016
The Book: a launch!original ↗
26 Jul 2016
Booking It № 1: Making Paper with Chrissie Heughanoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2016
Miscellany № 76: punctuating the summeroriginal ↗
4 Jul 2016
Edinburgh ♥ Booksoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2016
Miscellany № 75: the end of the full stop. Period?original ↗
13 Jun 2016
Miscellany № 74: zombies always make a hash of thingsoriginal ↗
30 May 2016
Shady Characters at the BBC: Word of Mouth, 24th Mayoriginal ↗
23 May 2016
Miscellany № 73: per Churchill et commataoriginal ↗
9 May 2016
Miscellany № 72: sections and shillingsoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2016
More on The Bookoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2016
№ ⸮ ‽ ℔ ⁊ ⸿  — or, a cavalcade of charactersoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2016
Miscellany № 71 — ‘⋮’ reduxoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2016
Miscellany № 70 — '⋮', '⌨︎' & '¶'original ↗
28 Feb 2016
Shady Characters at the New York Timesoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2016
The Book, revealed!original ↗
21 Feb 2016
A spring clean for Shady Charactersoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2016
Miscellany № 69: the hyphen resolvedoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2016
Miscellany № 68: new year, new interrobangoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2016
Shady Characters in Polish is Ciemne typkioriginal ↗
4 Jan 2016

2015

The 2015 Shady Characters gift guideoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2015
Miscellany № 67: irony's restorationoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2015
Shady Characters at the BBC: punctuation that failed to make its markoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2015
Miscellany № 66: catching uporiginal ↗
25 Oct 2015
Logarithmical: Zipf's Law and the mathematics of punctuationoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2015
Miscellany № 65: from gnomonology to palaeographyoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2015
Shady Characters at the BBCoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2015
Miscellany № 64: let's gnomoniseoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2015
Miscellany № 63: punctuating the summeroriginal ↗
23 Jul 2015
The imminent death of the paragraphoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2015
Punctuation in Practice: a Workshoporiginal ↗
28 Jun 2015
A reminder: how to subscribe to Shady Charactersoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2015
It's (traditional Chinese) paperback publication day!original ↗
8 Jun 2015
Miscellany № 62: the absence of punctuationoriginal ↗
26 May 2015
Pilcrows in the service of science: a Shady Characters field triporiginal ↗
11 May 2015
A brief history of the # and the @original ↗
26 Apr 2015
Miscellany № 61: verbal irony seeks meaningful relationship. No, really.original ↗
13 Apr 2015
Miscellany № 60: the secret life of the tildeoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2015
Miscellany № 59: the percent signoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2015
UK paperback competition: the winners!original ↗
1 Mar 2015
It's paperback publication day (again, sort of)!original ↗
15 Feb 2015
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