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I have an artisanal integer. It's globally unique and leased to me by the phone company.

They even used to make a beautiful yearly book of artisanal integer owners where you could look up people's artisanal integers by name, but sadly that book is now out of print.

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It's globally unique but if you stop paying a fee they are free to assign it to someone else!

I think we need an Artisanal Telephonic Integer Users' Bill of Rights to prevent this type of thing.

They even had a special typeface for that beautiful yearly book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Centennial

Off-topic (though hand-picked integers isn't much of a topic to begin with..) do you know of a font, preferably serif, that has the little cross bar on the digit 7 that's common to hand-writing but seems to be shunned by most font designers?

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