Tools for Authors

Writing Tools

Unicode Entities

Common
U+201c “ left double quotation
U+201d ” right double quotation
U+2018 ‘ left single quotation
U+2019 ’ right single quotation/apostrophe
U+2022 • bullet
U+2014 — em dash (parenthetical text)
U+2013 – en dash (date ranges)
U+2015 ― quotation dash (attribution)

Less Common
U+2E3A ⸺ two-em dash (omissions)
U+FE58 ﹘ small em dash (why?)

Characters
—
Em dash (U+2014 | Option+- | Alt+0151)
–
en dash (U+2013 | Ctrl+Cmd+Space for menu | Alt+0150)
dash rules

•
bullet (U+2022 | Option+8 | Alt+0149)

“ ”
double smart quotes
‘ ’
single smart quotes
’
apostrophe

Other Tools

• Font test page (ligatures, etc.)
• Smart quotes converter
• Alternating case
• Duplicate word-finder
• Bibliography generator
• Lorem ipsum generator
• Markdown
  • Ghost markdown
  • Paste to markdown
  • markdown live preview
  • CommonMark
  • Markdown tables

Site Colours and Tools

• Icon generator for text-based author avatars
  • Use #FFFFFF font, #209CEE bg-colour, Libre Baskerville
• Palettes