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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 3140144, member: 36818&quot;]I&#039;m a graphic designer with around thirty years&#039; experience practicing typography, but I was unfamiliar with the term <i>interpunct</i>. I would have called them <i>bullets</i> (which I did in an earlier post). [USER=14873]@jamesicus[/USER] thank you for bringing this term to light.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did some searching online for definitions. Apparently the only difference between <i>interpunct</i> and <i>bullet</i> is that a bullet is used to mark the beginning of a list; an interpunct is used to space words. Otherwise they&#039;re the same; weight doesn&#039;t matter (depends on typeface and styling). Also, bullets or interpuncts don&#039;t necessarily have to be circular. They could be square or triangular or some other shape. I&#039;ve used checkmark symbols as bullets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have used interpuncts before. But I just called them bullets! On a Mac, typing Option+8 will produce a bullet — or interpunct — which term is correct depends on the usage.</p><p><br /></p><p>The default is •, but if I choose a different typeface in the Character window, I can get ∙</p><p><br /></p><p>Same symbol (Option+8), different styling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, after thirty years I&#039;m still learning. I never imagined that I would learn new typographic terminology from studying ancient coins, or from a discussion about ancient coins. There are always discoveries to be made. I really like the term <i>interpunct</i> because it&#039;s so much more descriptive than <i>bullet</i>, as these symbols are used on ancient coins. Inter = between, punct = punctuation. Punctuation between words. Much better than <i>dot</i>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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