From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography
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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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16 Emphasize ten percent or less of text3m 49s
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17 Avoid all caps and underlined text6m 23s
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18 Set acronyms and initialisms in small caps4m 20s
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19 Hang punctuation in small chunks of text4m 2s
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20 Hang bullets and numbers in lists5m 16s
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21 Avoid bad line breaks4m 29s
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22 Use symbols and special characters as needed5m 38s
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23 Use proportional old-style figures in body text5m 21s
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24 Adjust leading and kerning for large text6m 25s
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25 Verify software alignments optically5m 10s
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