What’s on the Dashes & Quotes poster
A 6-row table: Mark · Its job.
Six marks, and none of them are interchangeable.
- Hyphen - — Compound words, and line breaks
- En dash – — Ranges: 1919–1933
- Em dash — — A break in the sentence
- Minus − — Arithmetic; wider than a hyphen
- Quote marks “ ” — Speech and quotation
- Prime marks — Feet and inches, never quotes
A straight quote is a typewriter substitute for two different characters. Turn substitution on, then check every one.
Questions about the Dashes & Quotes poster
- What’s on the Dashes & Quotes poster?
- A 6-row table: Mark · Its job. Six marks, and none of them are interchangeable. Hyphen - — Compound words, and line breaks; En dash – — Ranges: 1919–1933; Em dash — — A break in the sentence; Minus − — Arithmetic; wider than a hyphen; Quote marks “ ” — Speech and quotation; Prime marks — Feet and inches, never quotes. A straight quote is a typewriter substitute for two different characters. Turn substitution on, then check every one.
- Who is the Dashes & Quotes poster for?
- Dashes & Quotes belongs to the Art & Design section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning typography can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Dashes & Quotes poster?
- Use it on any text you have set from a plain-text source. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Dashes & Quotes belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Dashes & Quotes?
- The Baseline Grid, Figures & Small Caps and Justified & Ragged sit alongside Dashes & Quotes in the Art & Design section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Baseline GridFigures & Small CapsJustified & Ragged
- Is the Dashes & Quotes poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Dashes & Quotes downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Art & Design section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Dashes & Quotes poster print at?
- Dashes & Quotes is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Dashes & Quotes loses nothing.Printing guide
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