Typographic Cleaner
Fixes common typographic mistakes in text: straightens or corrects quotation marks, fixes apostrophes, removes double spaces, corrects ellipsis characters, and handles other punctuation issues that arise when writing or pasting text.
What it fixes
- Double spaces: collapses multiple consecutive spaces into one
- Straight quotes: replaces
"and'with proper curly/smart quotes - Apostrophes: converts straight apostrophe to typographic apostrophe (
') - Ellipsis: replaces three dots
...with the ellipsis character… - Hyphens vs. dashes: identifies double hyphens and suggests em/en dashes
- Trailing spaces: removes spaces at the end of lines
Curly quotes by language
| Language | Opening | Closing |
|---|---|---|
| English | “ / ‘ | ” / ’ |
| French | « | » |
| German | „ | “ |
When to use
- Before publishing blog posts or articles
- When pasting from Word or Google Docs into a CMS
- Cleaning up text extracted from PDFs or OCR output
- Preparing copy for print or PDF generation