Web Typography Sucks is the (surely hyperbolic) title of a presentation by one’s esteemed colleague Richard Rutter (the calm one at ClearLeft) and Mark Boulton, whom I believe I’ve not yet met and whose talent for malapropism has rubbed off onto Richard.
Shall we look at one set of slides from their gigantic PDF “deck”?
No, they are not. They’re neutral quotation marks, a relic of the typewriter age.
That’s exactly what they are. What they aren’t are “primes.” ′ and ″ are prime and double prime, and they look like this:
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2007.03.14 12:46. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2007/03/14/primes/
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