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Know your dashes: the hyphen, en dash and em dash - Sketchplanations

Know your dashes: the hyphen, en dash and em dash

— and much nicer than using parentheses (). And —to go the full mile —why not use an en dash when you’re separating your page numbers 1–5 or months May–Sep next time?

Didn’t spot that? 

- hypen

– en dash

— em dash

Most writing tools and OSes have tricks to do these automatically for you.

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