The Ampersand Storm

12/27/2025

Hope your holidays are a little extra, in all the very best ways. ✨ ✨ ✨

Both are from my Barstow typeface. The first is my alternate, and the second the original, designed by Darius Wells for Gothic Tuscan Italian typeface released by Wells & Webb in 1854. These gilded merrymakers numbers are numbers 375 and 376 in the Ampersand Storm project.

12/24/2025

Sending you sweet holiday greetings via 374 of this project. ✨💖🎄🍭🍬

12/15/2025

12/13/2025

Do you have a favorite? Six Victorian-style decorated from my Hobbs Type Family release are numbers 374 through 379 of the Ampersand Storm project. Hobbs has 6 ampersands per style, so 48 total so far. ✨😆 Rough sketches for the decorative effects are at the end of scroll. You can find more on Hobbs on my foundry account ✨🩵🖤🤎🩶

12/01/2025

LINK IN BIO - Botanical Ampersand calendars available now!

11/23/2025

Link in Bio - get your Ampersand Calendar today! 🌱🌸📆💖✨

11/08/2025

More groovy - still vibing off the 70s Lettering class I taught at MCAD in October. The references are from a 2017 Rockswell poster for James Taylor (number 1) , a set of Pop Message postcards (two and four) and rad disco vibes in general (the balance). These are numbered 369 through 373 in the project.

02/18/2023

Thanks to those who played or like the voting game reel this week! Sketch 3, vectored here, was the clear winner. Hope you like it! Scroll for the tally. ✨💖
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11/24/2022

Wow the holiday snuck up like whoosh, didn't it! Here is 341. Giving thanks for all of you ampersanding with me. XO.
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09/17/2022

The amalgamation that is 339 is grouping from the font I've been working on over the summer! Those of you who follow my main account know that I am reviving Wells & Web's 1854 Gothic Tuscan Italian. (My redraw of their original '&' is the orange on yellow one in the carousel.) I made an alternate ampersand for the font, and the 'and' ornament. No surprise on these additions haha. There were ~36 characters in the original specimen and my glyph count is currently 514 *not a typo* . 😆 Mostly from diacritics. The unicase font has language support for the 104 Latin languages! The character set also contains all manner of frivolity: spirited and funky punctuation, charming maths, and entirely unnecessary but oddly compelling symbols. I also tried for a Carolingian-styled 'et' to add to this mix, but felt it was too weird. Or was it?