{"id":121,"date":"2011-03-11T22:33:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T22:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goggo101.wordpress.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2011-03-11T22:33:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T22:33:58","slug":"the-difference-between-en-dash-and-em-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/typography\/the-difference-between-en-dash-and-em-dash\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between en dash and em dash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never really understood the difference between using the hyphen, the en dash &#8211; and the em dash &#8212;. I found this article from list apart which explains it really well.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell the basic uses are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hyphen<\/strong> used to join two compound words (re-read)<\/li>\n<li><strong>En dash<\/strong> used for a range of things such as dates, numbers or instead of to (2&#8211;9)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Em dash<\/strong> used when writing a break in thought&#8212;like now!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/emen\/\">Read the full explanation from alistapart here<\/a> &gt;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2011\/03\/14\/technical-web-typography-guidelines-and-techniques\/\">smashing magazine has a good explanation here too<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never really understood the difference between using the hyphen, the en dash &#8211; and the em dash &#8212;. I found this article from list apart which explains it really well. In a nutshell the basic uses are: Hyphen used to join two compound words (re-read) En dash used for a range of things such&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/typography\/the-difference-between-en-dash-and-em-dash\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-typography","post_format-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}