Thin space
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thin-space-185-12360555
title:
Thin space
text:
In typography, a thin space is a space character whose width is usually 1⁄5 or 1⁄6 of an em. It is used to add a narrow space, such as between nested quotation marks or to separate glyphs that interfere with one another. It is not as narrow as the hair space. It is also used in the International System of Units and in many countries as a thousands separator when writing numbers in groups of three digits, in order to facilitate reading. It also avoids the ambiguity of the comma, used as a thousan
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Space character about 1/5 em wide
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_space
date created:
2010-08-04T01:37:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T20:52:34Z
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