The blog filled with creative thoughts
<< Use the division symbol to make a stitched line  |   WEBLOG  |   Will the South Pole break negative 100 this year? >>
ARCHIVES

The coolest character to use in your email signature

When you want to separate a bunch of information on one line, what do you use? Let us look at some options.

The pipe
Your Name | Fancypants Title | Acme Widgets

Classic, although it's essential to use two spaces before and after the pipe, otherwise it looks like an l (that's a lower case L)

The bullet
Your Name • Fancypants Title • Acme Widgets

Very institutional

The tilde
Your Name ~ Fancypants Title ~ Acme Widgets

So early 2000s. This is like putting an orbital shape by your logo. Don't do it! oh noooo!

The plus sign
Your Name + Fancypants Title + Acme Widgets

Cute, as it's a math sign. What does your name, title, and company add up to? It would be funny to have an equal sign in there somewhere. What that would equal, i have no idea.

The double slash
Your Name // Fancypants Title // Acme Widgets

Hip. Very hip.

The dollar sign
Your Name $ Fancypants Title $ Acme Widgets

Oh good gravy, I hope there is nobody on this planet using this. But you know there is. Somewhere.

The greater-than sign
Your Name > Fancypants Title > Acme Widgets

What is this? A navigational breadcrumb? I think not. Let's not mix our metaphors here.

The double greater-than sign
Your Name » Fancypants Title » Acme Widgets

Cousin to the greater-than sign is this funky double-version. It's like a set of twin cousins.

The coolest character to use (and the point of this blog post) The division sign
Your Name ÷ Fancypants Title ÷ Acme Widgets

It's got it all. A dash. Two dots. And the joy of mathematical richness. Dividing. What happens when you divide your name and then divide that by your title and then your company? Who knows? But it's really cool to think about. And we all know that when you line up a bunch of division signs, they make a stitched line effect. Now that's just frankencool.



Posted by: spudart on Jun 27, 08 | 5:00 am  |   [3252] Hits  |   permalink

leave a comment7 comments below... read 'em or add one.


I think the dollar sign is hilarious. I'd love to see an actual email sig with a dollar sign used a space divider.

Posted by: unlikelymoose on Jun 27, 08 | 8:29 am


I used the pipe when I was at TMS

The semi-colon is another favorite:

Your name : Fancypants Title : Acme Widgets

Posted by: Tom on Jun 27, 08 | 10:01 am


And I'm an idiot ... again. That would be a colon.

DURH

Posted by: Tom on Jun 27, 08 | 10:02 am


The colon! That's a good one! Wow. The colon totally rocks. I forgot all about it. Actually, the division sign is just like a colon, but it has a horizontal line through it.

Posted by: spudart on Jun 27, 08 | 10:13 am


What about the ninja throwing star? ¤

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤

Posted by: sparx on Jun 27, 08 | 11:39 am


Bigger shurikens! ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ .. or maybe they are suns now.

Posted by: sparx on Jun 27, 08 | 11:44 am


aw man, I went "very institutional" on my resume. I dig the division signs though.

Posted by: cat m. on Jul 17, 08 | 9:49 pm


Please leave a comment:
Name
Email (You don't have to put a real email address here. But if you want to be notified when someone adds a comment to this post, then put in your real email address here and check the "Notify me..." box below)
Homepage (not necessary)
Your Comments


Show my email address
Remember me
Notify me when someone replies to this post

Submit the word you see below:




*Name and Email address are required
Welcome
Hi. I'm Matt Maldre. Every single weekday my blog on spudart.org has a new post with an original idea or discovery. Be sure to stop by daily to see what's happening.





for sale
Buy some art
Boy Floppy - print at deviantart.com

mailing list
Get new spudart posts once a day:

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner


Subscription Center
Subscribe via RSS
Add to Google Reader
Add to My Yahoo
Add to My AOL
Add to My AOL
Add to My MSN
Add to My MSN
Subscribe in NewsGator Online
Add to NewsGator
Add to Bloglines
Add to Bloglines



art | design | illustration | photo | thoughts blog | other stuff
===== Spudart Productions: Sprouting out creativity =====
about spudart | contact | flickr | facebook | youtube | twitter | bookmarks