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> Hanging that opening curly-quote into the space off to the start of the text and aligning the actual words is a better look. Eh... no it's not?
by shannifin 3y ago
> Hanging that opening curly-quote into the space off to the start of the text and aligning the actual words is a better look.
Eh... no it's not?
- betenoire 3y agoThat was my reaction, as well. Maybe if it were bigger and stylized, but that's not really a trend anymore anyway. This just distracts me and makes me forget what I was reading
- quickthrower2 3y agoIt depends. Some of those examples look good, and some don't. In a big block quote it looks the part, like a magazine. Also the cyan line in Julia's blog makes it look good to me for some reason. I think it is the association of that line with a paper workbook.
- Izkata 3y ago> In a big block quote it looks the part, like a magazine. Doing a google image search for "magazine blockquote" isn't giving me anything with hanging punctuation, just oversized decorative quote marks, mostly at opposite corners of the blockquote box, sometimes even just the opening one. Most of them are also in a different color than the text.
- paradox460 3y agoIt happens a lot in prose magazines like The New Yorker, Harpers, and Lapham's
- roelschroeven 3y agoI agree. I don't think it looks better at all, and I feel it makes the structure of the text somewhat more difficult to see. I have this reaction to a lot of established typographical rules actually. Digits with descenders to name just one ("font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums" in CSS): I think they're ugly and make reading numbers unnecessarily difficult.