Tuesday, June 14, 2016

“Space Yourself” ↦

There’s a lot more to spaces than that big key on your keyboard:

Spaces are [in the Unicode table], too. There’s the one with an agent good enough to have gotten it the biggest key on everyone’s keyboard, but there are many more: the very narrow hair and thin spaces, the super-wide en and em spaces, and a few others in between:

  • Hair space
  • Six-per-em space
  • Thin space
  • Normal space
  • Four-per-em space
  • Mathematical space
  • Punctuation space
  • Three-per-em space
  • En space
  • Ideographic space
  • Em space