Space Yourself, a guide to spaces in typography

Space Yourself, a guide to spaces in typography


There’s more to spaces than the key you instinctively hit between words with one of your thumbs.

Learn more about different spaces in a text by Marcin Wichary for Smashing Magazine.

  • 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
  • Narrow no-break space
  • No-break space
  • Figure space
  • Zero-width space

Via @typewolf newsletter.

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