What are typographers quotes?
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What are typographers quotes?
Typographer’s Quotes (also known as Smart Quotes or Curly Quotes) is the use of stylish (curly, angled, rounded) open and close, primary and alternative quotation marks instead of the straight quotes found on a keyboard.
What is a curly quote?
Curly quotes are the quotation marks used in good typography. There are four curly quote characters: the opening single quote ( ‘ ), the closing single quote ( ‘ ), the opening double quote ( “ ), and the closing double quote ( ” ).
How do you write quotation marks?
Press-and-hold the ALT key and then type 0145 for the opening single quotation mark and ALT followed by 0146 for the closing single quotation mark.
How do you make a curly quote on the keyboard?
For the curly single opening and closing quote mark (or apostrophe), use ‘ and ’ respectively. For the curly opening and closing double quotation marks, use “ and ” respectively.
What is a smart quote?
“Smart quotes” are the ideal form of quotation marks and apostrophes, and are commonly curly or sloped. “Dumb quotes,” or straight quotes, are a vestigial constraint from typewriters when using one key for two different marks helped save space on a keyboard.
How can I get smart quotes?
Smart quotes in Word
- On the File tab, click Options.
- Click Proofing, and then click AutoCorrect Options.
- In the AutoCorrect dialog box, do the following: Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab, and under Replace as you type, select or clear the “Straight quotes” with “smart quotes” check box.
- Click OK.
How do you use quotations?
Quotation Marks
- We use quotation marks with direct quotes, with titles of certain works, to imply alternate meanings, and to write words as words.
- Block quotations are not set off with quotation marks.
- The quoted text is capitalized if you’re quoting a complete sentence and not capitalized if you’re quoting a fragment.
What font has curly quotes?
Times New Roman
In a serif typeface such as Times New Roman, curly quotation marks (also known as “curved” or “smart” quotation marks) look like small figures six and nine with the enclosed portions filled in.
What are some of the best quotes?
100 Best Quotes of All Time
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
- “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
- “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”
