{"id":71,"date":"2007-07-30T23:34:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T23:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/go-huck-yoursel\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T23:34:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T23:34:47","slug":"go-huck-yoursel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/peeves\/go-huck-yoursel\/","title":{"rendered":"Go \u00b6huck Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/07\/30\/142pxpilcrowsvg.png\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=142,height=199,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"142pxpilcrowsvg\" border=\"0\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/07\/30\/142pxpilcrowsvg.png\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"142pxpilcrowsvg\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a> I&#39;m in a ranty mood.<\/p>\n<p>You know what I hate? The use of the pilcrow (paragraph sign, \u00b6) as a design element. Often in magazines, articles will begin with a block of text that&#39;s in bigger type than the rest of the piece. If the part of the story filling that block is more than one paragraph long, instead of using a line break and an indent as usual the designer will keep the text flowing but stick a pilcrow in there.<\/p>\n<p>There are several reasons to stop this. First, it&#39;s an ugly, elaborate character, especially for what it does. Use a pipe or a bullet (| or \u2022) or some other arbitrary symbol, as long as it&#39;s clean.<\/p>\n<p>Second, it&#39;s too explicit. The reader shouldn&#39;t stop to think, even subconsciously for a few milliseconds, &quot;Oh, that symbol looks like a backwards P with an extra leg, and P stands for paragraph, and they&#39;re telling me that they&#39;re starting a new paragraph here.&quot; No, don&#39;t spell it out. Keep it simple. Again, any subtle visual cue would work. Did I mention the bullet?<\/p>\n<p>Third, it just looks like someone forgot to turn &quot;display formatting&quot; off. Stop being meta and trendy.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I have so much anger?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m in a ranty mood. You know what I hate? The use of the pilcrow (paragraph sign, \u00b6) as a design element. Often in magazines, articles will begin with a block of text that&#39;s in bigger type than the rest of the piece. If the part of the story filling that block is more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-design","category-peeves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}