Meet the interrobang. Unless you happen to be a typographic expert, you probably haven't encountered the hybrid question mark-exclamation point. It was actually invented in the early 1960s by ad exec ...

It’s hard to believe the year we have had. Even harder that a punctuation mark could help explain it. But when you consider the history of the interrobang—a largely forgotten symbol that marries both ...

I was shocked to hear my son never heard of the interrobang. Especially since his little boy uses it all the time. Sort of. The interrobang is a punctuation mark. And since my 4-year-old grandson does ...

There’s a genius punctuation symbol you’ve probably never used before, but some experts have called on the internet to make it great again. We can have face-to-face chats with people across the globe ...

Glyphs are the hidden heroes of the typography world. You might not pay them much attention, but they’re undeniably important. Glyphs—and by glyphs we’re referring specifically to those little ...

Several writers and inventors in the last century tried to introduce new marks of punctuation into the English language – but they all failed. Keith Houston tells their story. In the 1930s and ’40s, ...

Every now and then, a random punctuation mark or emoticon will pop up and take over the Internet. The latest one is a little-known symbol called an interrobang that is super easy to start using every ...

"YOU did WHAT?!" At times of high excitement, mirth or outrage, a mere question mark may not suffice. Using a question mark in conjunction with an exclamation mark or two can help convey the urgency ...