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En Space
An en (from English ''en quad, en quadrat'') is a typographic unit, half of the width of an em (typography), em. By definition, it is equivalent to half of the Body height (typography), body height of the typeface (e.g., in 16-point (typography), point type it is 8 points). As its name suggests, it is also traditionally the width of an uppercase letter "N". The Dash#En dash, en dash (–) and en space (punctuation), space ( ) are each one ''en'' wide. In English, the en dash is commonly used for inclusive ranges (e.g., "pages 12–17" or "August 7, 1988 – November 26, 2005"), and increasingly to replace the Dash#Em dash, long dash ("—", also called an em dash or em rule). When using it to replace a long dash, spaces are needed either side of it – like so. This is standard practice in the German language, where the hyphen is the only dash without spaces on either side (Newline, line breaks are not spaces ''per se''). Associated symbols and . Encodings: * ''en s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
En Quad
In typography, a quad (originally '' quadrat'') was a metal spacer used in letterpress typesetting. The term was later adopted as the generic name for two common sizes of spaces in typography, regardless of the form of typesetting used. An em quad (originally ''m quadrat'') is a space that is one '' em'' wide; as wide as the height of the font. An en quad (originally ''n quadrat'') is a space that is one '' en'' wide: half the width of an em quad. Both are encoded as characters in the General Punctuation code block of the Unicode character set as U+2000 EN QUAD and U+2001 EM QUAD, which are also defined to be canonically equivalent to U+2002 EN SPACE and U+2003 EM SPACE respectively. History In 1683, in Joseph Moxon's book on the art of printing, the terms ''m'' and ''n quadrat'' are attested: And as there is three Heighths or Sizes to be considered in Letters Cut to the same Body, so is there three Sizes to be considered, with respect to the Thicknesses of all these Letters, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
