Hi there, I am not sure where to ask this question but since this is related to typography, I will post it here. Anyway I want to ask what is that mysterious icon at the end of any magazine, webzine or newspaper article called? Example above. Thanks in advance.
Quotation from answers.com: "The tombstone, halmos, or end of proof mark "∎" is used in mathematics to denote the end of a proof, in place of the traditional abbreviation "QED" for the Latin phrase "quod erat demonstrandum" (Q.E.D.). Various forms of the end-of-proof symbol In Unicode, it is represented as character U+220E "End of Proof". Its graphic form varies. It may be a hollow or filled rectangle or square. In AMS-LaTeX, the symbol is automatically appended at the end of a proof environment \begin{proof} ... \end{proof}. It can also be obtained from the commands \qedsymbol or \qed (the latter causes the symbol to be right aligned). It is sometimes called a halmos after its eponym Paul Halmos, who first used it in mathematical context, after seeing it was being used to indicate the end of articles in magazines."