Curly Quotes and Curly Apostrophes (Smart Quotes)
A client today asked me to change the boring old "straight quotes" on some web pages to “curly quotes”.
I imagine if your a typographic person, the idea that there are 2 types of quotes is not news.
Here it is the difference:
"straight quotes" and “curly quotes”.
Now, depending on the font your using the curly version may look different as in this font:
"straight quotes" and “curly quotes”.
Also there is the standard apostrophe or single quote (') and the curly apostrophe (’) which big looks like:
Ken Falk's standard apostrophe
Ken Falk’s curly apostrophe.
Anyway, you can look at the source of this page or just note that to get the curly quotes you use the following HTML special characters:
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Left Double Quote:
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“
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Right Double Quote:
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”
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Left Single Quote
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‘
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Right Single Quote
(Apostrophe)
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’
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If you didn't notice, that's short for “left double quote”, “right double quote”, “left single quote”, and “right single quote”,