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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
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Many (but not all) graphemes that are part of a writing system that encodes a full spoken language are included in the Unicode standard, which also includes graphical symbols. See: Language code; List of Unicode characters; List of writing systems; Punctuation; List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
A complex fleuron with thistle from a 1870 edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. A fleuron (/ ˈ f l ʊər ɒ n,-ə n, ˈ f l ɜːr ɒ n,-ə n / [1]), also known as printers' flower, is a typographic element, or glyph, used either as a punctuation mark or as an ornament for typographic compositions.
A glyph (/ ɡ l ɪ f / GLIF) is any kind of purposeful mark.In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". [1] It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language.
Full Widths: fwid: S1 Substitutes proportionally spaced character with full-width versions (esp. for Latin letters within Chinese) Half Widths: hwid: S1,P1 Substitutes uniformly-spaced characters with half-width version Alternate Half Widths: halt: P1 Re-positions full-width glyphs on half-width spaces Third Widths: twid: S1,P1
Typographical syntax, also known as orthotypography, is the aspect of typography that defines the meaning and rightful usage of typographic signs, notably punctuation marks, and elements of layout such as flush margins and indentation.
Grawlix (/ ˈ ɡ r ɔː l ɪ k s /) or obscenicon is the use of typographical symbols to replace profanity. Mainly used in cartoons and comics, [1] [2] it is used to get around language restrictions or censorship in publishing. At signs (@), dollar signs ($), number signs (#), ampersands (&), percent signs (%), and asterisks (*) are often used ...