Howdy Folks - my submission for the Project.

Here's mine:

One of my last submission

That Haiti HAARP ampersand is probably the first instance of a conspiracy theory-based ampersand

Greetings all, here's one from frozen MPLS.

Here's my wife Joanna's continuous one line ampersand.

Dezcom, that is an pretty unique addition, but the internet-voice inside my head wants to say something witty and inappropriate about safety-belts & segregation... It may be a bit much?

To send or not to send. That is the question.

My second one:

Here goes ...

"but the internet-voice inside my head wants to say something witty and inappropriate about safety-belts & segregation... "

@brock

Huh? I don't get it.

Michael, very nice. Make the drop more tear-like?

hhp

this is my first post here, too.
my contribution:

I just sent this, I hope it helps.

Here's my 2 submissions!

H O P E 4 H A I T I !

Hope it will help!

My contribution:

Theo, that's beautiful.

Viktor, now that's what I'm talkin'bout.

hhp

Our contribution:

Looks good, Elias!

Wow! Very high level here. This is my proposal. :)

Lucky to all.

So many beautiful forms! Here is mine.

or

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

from the Fontry...

Redbot Supports Haiti

Here's a second one from me. Starting point was a seismogram-like wave.

hi
here's one of my submissions

& my ampersand...

Aw, my first post! Here are my two - I'm only submitting the first one though, the cleaner one. The more calligraphic version... yeah, not so simple and clean as requested. But I have a tendency to overdo it. Always. ;)

~ Laura

Those are lovely Laura - welcome to Typophile.

pbc

I made this by using the pattern:

my ampersand

Quite a good one, Wolfgang!

Howdy Folks - Here's another design I've been playing with.

Very nice work, everybody! Here is my monoline ampersand:

Here is mine. So many great entries. My is more a grid based icon. Love seeing the community come together.

Now that the font is done, lets make a Poster for charity too! :)

My little grain of sand for the cause.

Here's mine, finished with more than two hours to spare! :-)

hhp

Thanks everyone! We have close to 400 participants. The font is coming together very nicely. I'll send out an update as soon as we have more information to share. If all goes well, we hope to have the font for sale by the end of the week.

Michelle

Brilliant, Hrant! I also like the one by Anderson Maschio a lot, very "Asian-fusion".

great work everyone!

hrant, nice one.

A great, and fun project - wonderful to see all different creative kinds of work!
Here's one of my contributions.
/Mathias

Very seismic, Hrant! :-)

Fabulous variety. Here's my very humble design:

Here ya go type geeks!

Nice one from the heart Andrea!

Missed the deadline, sadly, but I had worked on this guy.

Thanks everyone! This font is going to be amazing. We had 379 people submit designs from 37 different countries.

Chank Diesel is doing an amazing job behind the scenes putting the font together. The font will be sold for $20 (same as Font Aid III) through several different font distributors. We’ll announce which distributors once the contracts and plans are finalized.

All money raised will be donated to Doctors Without Borders to help with their work in Haiti.

The SoTA board is overjoyed by the response to this project. We hope many of you will join us at our annual conference being held this year in Los Angeles, California at the end of August (www.typecon.com). We also encourage you to become a member of SoTA to help support projects such as Font Aid (http://www.typesociety.org/memjoin.html) . SoTA is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of type, its history and development, its use in the world of print and digital imagery, its designers, and its admirers.

Thanks again! You guys are amazing!

Michelle & the SoTA board

My contribution

I couldn't decide on one direction for the design, so submitted two. They can use one, the other or both.

here's mine:

my ampersands!

I really like the second one, Alan!

Alan's first is lovely! The black and white are nicely balanced in the bottom swirl. And it's clever how the form of the lowercase e is incorporated.

Absolutely, the first one is a fantastic confluence of Eastern and Western aesthetics, and the second one is a very clever play of basic geometrics.

"Coming Together" the benefit fundraiser font is coming together!
Still not done yet, but here's how it's looking so far.
Should be ready some time next week, vectors permitting.

How does it look so far? Brilliant!

Great job, everybody.

Thanks for volunteering your help, Chank!

I think I finally "get: the ampersand after seeing all these great interpretations of it. :o)
Nice work everyone, and I second Chris's vote of thanks to Chank.

Hello. Here you are my two cents. I was glad to participate.

Great one, Cesar!

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Just another doodle study for the series of ampersand posters
planned for Spring.

All proceeds to help Haiti.

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Nice effort chank!

okay, here's how it's looking now.
almost all done. hope this previews okay... it's kinda big...

-chank

Lookin good!

Great great great!!!
What a fun thing!

My favourite was this one:

I'm now lost.

pick yor favourite.

There's some really cool stuff in there.

hhp

Eikös tuo jälkeläinen pidä kättään sinun yllä?

Hrant, I like this one.

nnnnice!

@chang, no sign of mine in the final draft. Nice job - I would love to be part of this! :0

it's in there, mr. boardman. second line down, fourth from the right. looks like a lifeboat. nice work!

my favorite changes from day to day. today's fave are those 3 crazy ones in the middle of the top row. you can't tell how intricate they are in this gif, but they are quite ornate and completely chaotic and organic.

everybody did such a good job with this project. so proud I was able to get so many glyphs in there and keep the final OTF file size under 300K. fontlab and opentype work like magic sometimes.

-chank

chank - who did those 3 that you're talking about? It sure looks like my friend Weeman's work. Andy Martin is his real name.

pbc

hey Paul C - nope, not Weeman I don't think. they're from Sorin Bechira, (www.bechira.com) -chank

It's for sale! http://www.typesociety.org/fontaid.html

Help spread the word. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

I just bought a copy from Veer. It looks good! Thanks, Chank and Michelle and all who helped!

Great cause & great work by all. I should participate more, and lurk less...

Hey Chris, I just made that purchase at Veer, too. I'm encouraging everyone I know to buy Coming Together, even if it's the first time they've ever bought a font. I'm looking at the typeface in FontExplorer and marvelling at what Chank put together… and wondering whose ampersand I get when I type & (shift+7), i.e. glyph ID 53.

Glyph ID 53 is by Kent Lew. He posted it earlier in this thread.

Someone is working on a PDF speciman that will map each ampersand to the name of the designer who created it. It's a lot of work, but hopefully we'll have it ready in a few days.

I got into the office this morning hit the send button on an email I'd already prepared and addressed to "All", telling the 3000 or so people where I work about this.