Friday 22Jan2010 1:55
“ The em dash [—] is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many editorial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces. Like the oversized space between sentences, it belongs to the padded and corseted aesthetic of Victorian typography.
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Bringhurst is breaking my heart (via inky)
I agree with Inky, of course. The em dash is beautiful, and in my opinion works much better than the en dash — see? No-one is perfect and I fully believe that this is Bringhurst’s flaw.
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