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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.
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.
Greek hetaira and her client, approx. 430 BC. The fact that she is on the couch with him is telling, as wives were not allowed into the symposium.. A hetaira (/ h ɪ ˈ t aɪ r ə /; Ancient Greek: ἑταίρα, lit.
العربية; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Català; Чӑвашла
Printing registration marks intended for the manufacturer of the packaging, to ensure different colors are aligned when printed; Various certification marks (see article for list) signifying conformance with a government or private organization's requirements
The 33 characters classified as ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are what is meant when an organization says a password "requires punctuation marks".
Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. [1] The oldest known examples of punctuation marks were found in the Mesha Stele from the 9th century BC, consisting of points between the words and horizontal strokes between sections.
The rules dealing with quotation marks are a good example of this: which ones to use and how to nest them, how much whitespace to leave on both sides, and when to integrate them with other punctuation marks. Each major publisher maintains a list of orthotypographic rules that they apply as part of their house style. [citation needed]