en or em dash
en or em dash
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- duckofrubber0
I tend to shorten the em dash by around 15–20% and add a very small amount of space on either side. Not much, just enough for balance (somewhere between a hair space and thin space in InDesign).
- why not just use an en dash?monospaced
- too shortduckofrubber
- funny, because it's just about 20% shorter than the emmonospaced
- not true. it's about 50–60% shorter.duckofrubber
- Well, it does depend on the typeface. With Helvetica—as an example—it is exactly 50% smaller.duckofrubber