From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography

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22 Use symbols and special characters as needed

22 Use symbols and special characters as needed

From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography

22 Use symbols and special characters as needed

- Law 22: Use symbols and special characters as needed. There will be times when you need to include symbols and characters in your documents, that can't be found on your standard keyboard. These characters include things like special punctuation marks, registered trademark symbols, copyright symbols, degree symbols, accented characters, and so on. It can be really tempting to be a little lazy and not include these special characters in your documents, but they are not hard to use and should be included when needed. This is especially true of what are called diacritical marks and diacritical marks are symbols added to letters of the alphabet that indicate a different pronunciation. Accent marks are a type of diacritical mark that you're probably familiar with. You can see on screen, some other examples of diacritical marks. Now the English language does not contain many native words that use diacritical marks, but many, many other languages, including French, Italian, German, Spanish,…

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