curly quotes
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curly quotes are pairs of quote marks that are shaped with curves to indicate the start and end of a quotation, like “ ” and ‘ ’ , and should be used in prose content and posts.
Why
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You should use curly quotes in prose content for improved typography and better readability around quotations and as apostrophes in contractions and possessives.
How to
Different systems have different ways of entering curly quotes. You may find the following useful for copy/pasting:
“ ” ‘ ’
How to type
On MacOS, you can type curly quotes as follows:
- “ — option-[
- ” — shift-option-[
- ‘ — option-]
- ’ — shift-option-]
On browsers in general, you can create the following bookmarklets (curlypastelets or just pastelets) to choose and type the curly quotes you want:
IndieWeb Examples
Jeremy Cherfas uses a home-made Python script in Alfred to smartify quotes and em dashes when he writes
Tantek Çelik uses UTF-8 in his content creation and publishing flow (from using BBEdit to create posts and UTF-8 plain text files, to PHP and JS handling of UTF-8 storage, to publishing HTML with UTF-8), and thus enters curly quotes directly when typing his content on MacOS laptop keyboard (as documented in #How_to_type. E.g.:
- 2024-06-28 Responsible Inventing (earlier examples available)
gRegor Morrill: 2024-07-02 my note with the four bookmarklets I use- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Brainstorming
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