curly quotes
Styled quotation marks
Curly quotes are quotation marks that curve toward the quoted text, distinguished from straight quotes that stand vertically.
They come in pairs—opening marks curve one way, closing marks the other: "like this" rather than "like this".
Most word processors convert straight quotes to curly ones automatically.
Also called smart quotes or typographer's quotes.
Visual form of character
- fontCharacter style set
- typefaceLettering style design
- kerningLetter-pair spacing adjustment
- ligatureCord for binding
serif · Baskerville · Palatino · typesetting · OpenType · character set · em dash · en dash
Electronic character encoding standard
- autocorrectAutomatic spelling correction
- word processorDocument creation software
- Microsoft WordText document application
- find and replaceLocate text, substitute new
code editor · markup · LaTeX · plain text · rich text · copy-paste
Punctuation enclosing quotations
- speech marksPunctuation around direct quotes
- commaPunctuation marking pauses
- periodPunctuation ending sentences
- semicolonPunctuation joining related clauses
colon · dash · ellipsis · brackets · parentheses · punctuation marks
Mention of a source
- attributionAssigning origin or cause
- excerptPortion taken from larger work
- passageSegment of text
- direct speechExact quoted utterance
epigraph · verbatim · reference · source · footnote · dialogue tags · said
glyph
Visual form of character
ligature · serif · Baskerville · Palatino · typesetting · OpenType · character set · em dash · en dash · apostrophe
ASCII
Electronic character encoding standard
- autocorrectAutomatic spelling correction
- word processorDocument creation software
- Microsoft WordText document application
find and replace · code editor · markup · LaTeX · plain text · rich text · copy-paste
inverted commas
Punctuation enclosing quotations
- speech marksPunctuation around direct quotes
- commaPunctuation marking pauses
- periodPunctuation ending sentences
semicolon · colon · dash · ellipsis · brackets · parentheses · punctuation marks
citation
Mention of a source
- attributionAssigning origin or cause
- excerptPortion taken from larger work
- passageSegment of text
direct speech · epigraph · verbatim · reference · source · footnote · dialogue tags · said
- punctuationperiod, comma, colon, apostrophe, semicolon
- Quotinginverted commas, speech marks, chevrons