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Will gets the “Fickle

dezcom — Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:40:11 -0700

Will gets the “Fickle Finger of Fate” award :-)

ChrisL

Back in September James

will powers — Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:07:22 -0700

Back in September James Craig asked this question on the ATypI list:

“Ever wonder about the origins of the pointing hand?”

And then, noting that “This article may tell you more than you wish to know about the subject,” posted this link:

http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/papers/FOR_2005_04_002.html

Check it out; fascinating.

powers

Hi all, Can anyone recommend

sunghee — Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:04:59 -0700

Hi all,

Can anyone recommend a good-looking fist? I was searching for the typeface that has fist and stumbled onto this discussion. I don’t seem to have Garamond 1530 in my system. Thanks!

grod — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 14:41:41 -0800

In UTF-8 the following are the html character codes for various hands (note, this probably won't display in IE... Gecko based browsers won't have a problem)
☚ BLACK LEFT POINTING INDEX
☛ BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX
☜ WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX
☝ WHITE UP POINTING INDEX
☞ WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX
☟ WHITE DOWN POINTING INDEX

ON PREVIEW: Turns out the forum software doesn't allow character codes. You'll have to test it for yourselves.

John Hudson — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:51:07 -0800

Tiffany, that is splendid! Next time I design a fist for a typeface, I'm going to model it on the hand of Constantine.

dezcom — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:58:43 -0800

After all, it is digital typography :-)

as8 — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:29:35 -0800

got a mac icon.
AS

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dewitt — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:06:12 -0800

Hey, can't you guys stop talking about fists and get back to talking about hands?

Sorry...I never could resist a pun, good or bad. By the way, does anyone know the history behind calling text hand? Is that where we get handwriting from? Come on, give me a hand. (Ok, I'll stop.)

Frank Jonen — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:00:06 -0800

Here's my 2

speter — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:34:31 -0800

Ah, such pointed discussion. I have to hand it to you all!

Miss Tiffany — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:00:22 -0800

Not really on topic but I thought it fun to post it anyway.

hrant — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:40:37 -0800

John, I'm counting seven. Unless one of the fingers is missing, or conjoined, but then we'd have to define "finger"...

hhp

union — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:38:24 -0800

magnus_gaarde — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 02:25:32 -0800

"Printer's fist, fist, fist indicator, hand, poiting hand, indicator, index, digit, you name it."

From the book:
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Pointing hand icon?

union — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:23:06 -0800

Hi

I was wondering if anyone knows the name of the pointing hand icon which appears in some fonts. I visited a museum in Italy last week, and I was surprised to see these pointing icons used in a book from the 16th century.

Anyone know the history of this symbol?

Thanks

Jim