Typography

This article could have contained just one word: tittle. Tittle, unsurprisingly pronounced /ˈtɪtl/, is the name used in typography for (...)

I have recently noticed that smart quotes (aka “curly quotes”) stopped working on my blog (they were replaced by the ordinary (...)

These four little characters: “‐”, “−”, “–”, and “—”, often get confused. Most computer users use just a single character, “-”, the so-called hyphen-minus (the usual minus character you have on your keyboard), which is, technically, different from all four. (...)

Ideally, every number (in its abstractness) should have its own symbol. However, since there are infinitely many natural numbers and our (...)