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.
I think the dollar sign is hilarious. I’d love to see an actual email sig with a dollar sign used a space divider.
I used the pipe when I was at TMS The semi-colon is another favorite: Your name : Fancypants Title : Acme Widgets
And I’m an idiot … again. That would be a colon. DURH
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.
What about the ninja throwing star?
Bigger shurikens! .. or maybe they are suns now.
aw man, I went “very institutional” on my resume. I dig the division signs though.