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## Quotes
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The quotes you find on your keyboard are ambidextrous, or _dumb_ quotes. They
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are big, awful, clumsy straight lines that look like wedges jammed into your
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are big, awful, clumsy, straight lines that look like wedges jammed into your
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text. They exist purely because of space constraints on modern keyboards: there
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isn’t enough room to have left and right single- and double-quote marks, so
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just isn’t enough room to have left and right single- and double-quote marks, so
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instead we have quote marks that can do both.
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<p class="_tfd-demo">'Single' and "double" dumb quotes. Ugly.</p>
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text, you should use a hyphen. Pretty much everything else has a more specific
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type of dash that should be used.
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<p class="_tfd-demo">Front-end Developer</p>
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| Mac | Win | HTML | Output |
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| ----------- | -------- | --------- | ------ |
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| - | - | `-` | - |
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### Minuses
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If you really want to show off, there’s technically a different character for
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minuses. A hyphen is a very close approximation, but is actually set a little
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lower and shorter than a true hyphen.
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minuses. A hyphen is a very close approximation, but is set a little lower and
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shorter than a true hyphen.
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<p class="_tfd-demo">Your balance is £-1902.</p>
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<p class="_tfd-demo">Your balance is £−1902.</p>
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Use this in any math you need to write, or for displaying negative values.
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Unfortunately it’s a little harder to write out on a Mac.
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Unfortunately it’s a little harder (read, potentially impossible) to write out
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on a Mac.
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| Mac | Win | HTML | Output |
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