{"id":12707,"date":"2010-02-15T16:17:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=12707"},"modified":"2011-10-25T03:24:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:24:06","slug":"coming-together-ampersands-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12707","title":{"rendered":"Coming Together: Ampersands for Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typesociety.org\/fontaid.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FontAid4_03.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOTA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typesociety.org\/fontaid.html\" target=\"_blank\">Font Aid IV<\/a> jumped into action a few weeks ago \u2013 to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. <\/p>\n<p>The result was released today. A collaborative font. <\/p>\n<p><strong>purchase<\/strong><br \/>\nSnag your copy of the Coming Together font thru any of these sources:<\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascenderfonts.com\/font\/coming-together-font.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Ascender Fonts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[2] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/products\/typedetail.aspx?image=UMT0000515\" target=\"_blank\">Veer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[3] <a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/fontaid\/coming-together\/\" target=\"_blank\">MyFonts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[4] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontshop.com\/fonts\/foundry\/sota\/\" target=\"_blank\">FontShop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The font sells for 20 bucks (US) and all proceeds go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\">Doctors Without Borders<\/a> to help the people of Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake. <\/p>\n<p><strong>all ampersands<\/strong><br \/>\nThe font consists of just under 400 ampersands from type designers from around the world \u2013 including myself (see below). <\/p>\n<p>For more about ampersands, history and use, read Steve Matteson\u2019s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascenderfonts.com\/info\/designers-toolbox\/july2009.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> For more about Font Aid IV, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typesociety.org\/fontaid.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascenderfonts.com\/font\/coming-together-font.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FontAid4_02.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em>That be mine<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Coming Together: Ampersands for Haiti\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12707\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOTA\u2019s Font Aid IV jumped into action a few weeks ago \u2013 to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. The result was released today. A collaborative font. purchase Snag your copy of the Coming Together font thru any of these sources: [1] Ascender Fonts [2] Veer [3] MyFonts [4] FontShop The font [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,49,127,120],"tags":[71,126,67,58,122],"class_list":["post-12707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-education","category-fonts","category-typography","tag-calligraphy","tag-education","tag-fonts","tag-graphic-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12707"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29961,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions\/29961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}