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floriankarsten / space-grotesk

Space Grotesk: a proportional variant of the original fixed-width Space Mono family
https://floriankarsten.github.io/space-grotesk
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Typewriter quotes look like ending quotation marks #44

Open winghongchan opened 2 years ago

winghongchan commented 2 years ago

The typewriter quote " should be straight for use at the beginning and end of a quote.

In Space Grotesk, the typewriter quote looks like a closing quotation mark, ”. So, quotes using typewriter quotes look like ”this”, which does not look correct.

This is prevented by word processors that know to smartly replace typewriter quotes generated by most keyboards with the appropriate curved quotation marks “…”, but in most other places where text is displayed, this issue will appear.

iamkroot commented 7 months ago

Same issue, irked by this. I'm curious- how do other fonts handle it by the way?

winghongchan commented 5 months ago

Same issue, irked by this. I'm curious- how do other fonts handle it by the way?

Curved quotes are separate Unicode characters.

Left Right Straight
Single ‘ U+2018 ’ U+2019 ' U+0027
Double “ U+201C ” U+201D " U+0022

This is what ‘ ’ ' “ ” " look like in Space Grotesk vs Space Mono: image

The straight apostrophe and quotation mark in Space Mono point straight down, so they work as both left and right quotation marks.