Typography and the Web

I keep returning to Peter K. Sheerin’s The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters). It’s not only useful for looking up HTML entities, it’s also an excellent article on typography in general.

So always remember: while em dashes (—) are long and en dashes (–) are exactly half as long, the soft hyphen (�) is so shy that it’s rarely seen — and when it is, it’s only because it’s caught dangling.

Two other interesting typography sites I visited today are the Graphion Online Type Museum and Textism’s Word HTML Cleaner.

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