Just a little rant by the typeface that has plagued us all…
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html

According to a very reliable source, “The irony mark or irony point (؟) (French: point d’ironie; ) is a proposed punctuation mark that was suggested to be used to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level (e.g. irony, sarcasm, etc.). It is illustrated by a small, elevated, backward-facing question mark. The irony mark has never been used widely. It appears occasionally in obscure artistic or literary publications.”

Never really caught on. But, also this: “The “rhetorical question mark” or percontation point was invented by Henry Denham in the 1580s and was used at the end of a rhetorical question; however, its use died out in the 1600s. It was the reverse of an ordinary question mark, so that instead of the main opening pointing back into the sentence, it opened away from it.”

It’s free and can be written in Unicode as U+2E2E.

Ooooooohhhh snap! Some company is selling what they call a “SarcMark,”  “the official, easy-to-use punctuation mark to emphasize a sarcastic phrase, sentence or message.” They’re selling it here for the affordable and reasonable price of $1.99. It truly is mere pennies for a lifetime assurance that your bitter snark (maybe they should have called it the SnarkMark?*) and carefully choreographed wit will get all the appreciation, social approbation and attention it deserves.

Nice.

I’m just interested to know what their creative development process was like. What does it mean? Like, when I look at the symbol, I see an abstract upsidedown fetus possibly rendered by Keith Herring himself or an abstract woman’s stomach…also done by K.Herr.

It’s too bad that I’m not sarcastic, or I’d be all over this, ROFLMAOLZ!

* “Snark” is a combination of the words “snide” and “remark,” birthed from the World Wide Web — its usage is probably more inclusive and less-specific than “sarcasm.”