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A strong, neutral, principles-driven, open source typeface for text or display
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em dash padding #204

Open babricker opened 3 years ago

babricker commented 3 years ago

The current font of choice Public Sans seems to be adding padding around the em dash that looks like a space. The APA standard says that there should be no space around an em dash.

Has there been discussion on adjusting this padding?

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josh-chamberlain commented 1 week ago

I noticed this, too. I like the idea of adding a hair space before and after, like you might kern any two characters; right now it feels maybe double the size it should be.