This is the next evolution for the unlaunched Exclamaquest Studio.
I need to do something more fun and related towards longer term goals I have in selling posters, crafting fonts, and expanding my design practice outside of the web.
Throughline Conference is this week and I'm volunteering, assisting Amy Santee with her "Find your career throughline" workshop. With that temporal mindsetting frame, it seems appropriateto name throughline as this week's theme & word of the week.
Throughline
A throughline is, literally, a line that holds together a narrative, all the way through it. You can call them recurring themes, the plot, or purpose of a thing, but throughline gives those words graphic form.
Exclamaquest
Exlamaquest was one of the original names proposed for the, now, accepted term for the interrobang punctuation mark (‽). It makes sense, in both cases, that these were proposed, as it's a hybrid of the interrogative question mark and the exclamatory bang mark (bang being a shorthand word for exclamation mark used in typographic & graphic production practices).
Exclamatory
Exclamation has a few different contexts. According to Wordhippo:
- A sudden cry or remark expressing surprise, strong emotion, or pain
- A loud calling or crying out
- A sudden cry or remark expressing surprise, strong emotion, or pain
- A spoken word, statement, or vocal sound
- A profane or offensive expression used to express anger or other strong emotions
It's an expression of emotion—strong emotion.