2 — Hoefler Titling includes one of my favorite ampersands, a lyrical italic with a palpable “et.” Typefounders as early as Griffo (1499) and Arrighi (1523) used ampersands of this basic shape — and calligraphic forebears date to the fourth century — but it was in the early seventeenth century that the shape flowered into this wonderfully baroque form. The triplet of circles that float along the ‘mean line’ (at the top of the lowercase) is charming in text; I’ve always found that these kinds of ampersands are particularly comfortable alongside roman small caps. (via Our Middle Name)