Punctuation Symbols
90+ quotes, dashes, bullets & typographic marks. Professional typography made easy.
Double Quotation Marks
Single Quotation Marks
CJK Brackets
Dashes & Hyphens
Ellipsis & Dots
Exclamation & Question
Bullets & List Markers
Section & Reference Marks
Primes & Apostrophes
Common Symbols
Punctuation Packs
Ready-to-use collections
Smart Quotes
8 items
Dash Set
6 items
Bullet Points
7 items
Legal & Business
8 items
Spanish Punctuation
6 items
Special Marks
7 items
Beyond basic periods and commas, Unicode offers a rich set of typographic punctuation marks that elevate your writing from amateur to professional. From proper quotation marks to em dashes and ellipsis, these characters make a real difference in document quality and readability.
Most people only use the punctuation available on their keyboard, but professional typographers, writers, and designers know that Unicode offers far superior alternatives. Curly quotes look more polished than straight quotes. An em dash reads better than two hyphens. A proper ellipsis (single character) is typographically correct compared to three periods.
Our punctuation collection includes quotation marks in all styles (single, double, angle, corner), dashes (en dash, em dash, figure dash), dots and leaders, reference marks, and special spaces (thin space, hair space, non-breaking space). Perfect for writers, editors, designers, and anyone who cares about typography.
Pro tip: once you start using proper typographic punctuation, you will never go back to keyboard substitutes. The difference between straight quotes and curly quotes alone transforms the professionalism of any document, email, or published content.
Typographic Punctuation Marks and How to Type Them
Professional typesetting depends on marks your keyboard quietly hides. Straight quotes, double hyphens, and three dots in a row are compromises the standard key layout forces on you; Unicode restores the characters typographers actually intend. Listed here are curly quotation marks, single and double, alongside French guillemets, Japanese corner brackets, the en dash and the longer em dash, the true horizontal ellipsis, section and pilcrow signs, primes for feet and inches, and a family of fixed-width spaces.
Typing them without a character map is the real hurdle. On macOS, Option plus a bracket produces smart quotes and Option-Shift-hyphen gives an em dash; on Windows, Alt codes or an editor's autocorrect handle the common ones. Copying from here skips all of that. Because each mark is an assigned code point rather than a font glyph, a curly quote pasted into a caption, a legal contract, or a code comment keeps its shape on any device. Writers, students citing sources, and designers laying out headings will find the marks they reach for most, grouped so the right dash or bracket sits one click away.
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FAQ
En dash (–) is used for ranges (2020–2024) and is the width of the letter 'n'. Em dash (—) is used for breaks in thought—like this—and is the width of the letter 'm'.
Smart quotes are curved quotation marks used in professional publishing, unlike straight quotes found on standard keyboards. They indicate opening and closing of quoted passages and appear in most word processors automatically.
The interrobang ‽ combines a question mark and exclamation point into one symbol. It expresses excited disbelief or rhetorical questions, like 'What did you say‽'
Guillemets «» are the standard quotation marks in French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and other languages. They're also used decoratively in design and typography.
The pilcrow ¶ marks the start of a new paragraph. It's commonly used in editing, word processors (Show/Hide), and legal documents to reference specific paragraphs.
Copy it from here! On Windows, Alt+0176 works. On Mac, Option+Shift+8. The degree symbol is used for temperature (72°F) and angles (90°).
The proper ellipsis is a single character (…) not three periods (...). Using the single character ensures correct spacing and prevents awkward line breaks.
Daggers are used for footnotes when asterisks are already used, or in order: * † ‡. The dagger (†) is also used to indicate deceased persons, especially in genealogy.