Posts tagged "entities"
Ellipses and interrobangs and em-dashes, oh my!
Typography is one of the most overlooked aspects of Web design—and I'm not talking about fonts, kerning, and x-heights. I'm talking about proper use of glyphs—the individual letters, numerals, and (especially) punctuation marks that make up all written text. There are proper and improper ways to use each glyph—and even large, well-funded websites often get it wrong.
This isn't surprising—even if a site's designer is trained in the specialized discipline of typography (which is unlikely), the person who actually marks up the content (or pastes it into the content management system) probably isn't. But the fact remains that poor typography is one of the most common and most easily avoided blemishes on the web.