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Text Beautifier

Turn plain typing into proper typography — curly quotes, real dashes.

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Quick Tool Overview

The Text Beautifier converts typewriter marks into typographic ones: straight quotes become curly with the correct direction, double hyphens become em dashes, three dots become an ellipsis, and common fractions become single characters. It is the exact reverse of Clean Text.

What it does
Applies proper typography to plain typed text
You give it
A draft typed with ordinary keyboard characters
You get back
Typeset text with real quotes, dashes and symbols
Best for
Print layouts, ebooks and published web copy
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About the Text Beautifier

Typing produces typewriter marks. Publishing needs typographic ones. The straight apostrophe you type is a prime symbol; the correct character is a right single quotation mark. Three full stops are not an ellipsis. A double hyphen is not an em dash. Readers do not consciously notice the difference, but the page looks amateur without it.

This applies the conversions a typesetter would. Straight quotes become curly ones with the correct opening and closing direction, including inside contractions where the apostrophe must curl the right way. Double hyphens become em dashes and number ranges get en dashes. Three dots become a proper ellipsis. Fractions become single characters, multiplication signs replace the letter x between numbers, and degree symbols replace the typed circle. It is the exact opposite of Clean Text, which straightens all of this back out for code.

Key features of the Text Beautifier

Quotes curl the right way

Opening and closing marks are worked out from context, including apostrophes inside contractions and leading elisions like '90s.

En and em dashes distinguished

A range gets an en dash and a sentence break gets an em dash — the most common typographic error in published text.

Real ellipses

Three full stops become the single ellipsis character, which spaces correctly and never breaks across a line.

Fractions and symbols

Common fractions, multiplication signs between numbers and degree symbols all get their proper characters.

Says when not to use it

The page is explicit that curly quotes break code and CSV, and points at Clean Text for the reverse.

How to use the Text Beautifier

  1. 1

    Paste your text

    A draft typed with ordinary keyboard characters.

  2. 2

    Choose the conversions

    Quotes, dashes, ellipses, fractions and symbols are each their own switch.

  3. 3

    Check the direction of the quotes

    Opening and closing marks are worked out from context, including apostrophes inside words.

  4. 4

    Copy the typeset text

    The result is ready for a page, a print layout or an ebook.

Frequently asked questions

On anything that will be read by a machine. Curly quotes break code, CSV files and search matching, so keep them out of anything technical. Clean Text does the reverse conversion when you need to strip them back out.

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