The Em Dash

This recent episode of 99% Invisible is catnip for a type-lover’s soul. I’m a proud member of Team Em Dash, and have had its keyboard shortcut burned into muscle memory for decades. As the podcast notes, this lovely typographic device can help build or break up the rhythm of a text, letting it work more like how you and I actually speak. Usage? No surrounding spaces for me, please—it’s wide enough…