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Typewriter quotes look like ending quotation marks #44

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winghongchan opened this issue Dec 2, 2021 · 2 comments
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Typewriter quotes look like ending quotation marks #44

winghongchan opened this issue Dec 2, 2021 · 2 comments
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The typewriter quote " should be straight for use at the beginning and end of a quote.

In Space Grotesk, the typewriter quote looks like a closing quotation mark, . So, quotes using typewriter quotes look like ”this”, which does not look correct.

This is prevented by word processors that know to smartly replace typewriter quotes generated by most keyboards with the appropriate curved quotation marks “…”, but in most other places where text is displayed, this issue will appear.

@mightybart mightybart added the bug label Feb 11, 2022
@mightybart mightybart self-assigned this Feb 11, 2022
@mightybart mightybart added this to the 2.0.1 milestone Feb 11, 2022
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Same issue, irked by this. I'm curious- how do other fonts handle it by the way?

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Same issue, irked by this. I'm curious- how do other fonts handle it by the way?

Curved quotes are separate Unicode characters.

Left Right Straight
Single U+2018 U+2019 ' U+0027
Double U+201C U+201D " U+0022

This is what ‘ ’ ' “ ” " look like in Space Grotesk vs Space Mono:
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The straight apostrophe and quotation mark in Space Mono point straight down, so they work as both left and right quotation marks.

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