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Quotation marks are written as a pair of opening and closing marks in either of two styles: single ('…') or double ("…"), and may take "curly" or "straight" glyphs. Straight glyphs – single ('…') or double ("…") – are often preferred in online writing, while curly glyphs predominate in paper publishing.

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Depending on the typeface, opening and closing quotation marks may be identical in form (called vertical, straight, or typewriter quotation marks), or may be distinctly left-handed and right-handed (typographic or, colloquially, curly quotation marks). The closing single quotation mark is identical or similar in form to the apostrophe and similar to the prime symbol. However, these three characters have quite different purposes.

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In the first centuries of typesetting, quotations were distinguished merely by indicating the speaker, and this can still be seen in some editions of the Bible. During the Renaissance, quotations were distinguished by setting in a typeface contrasting with the main body text (often Italic type with roman, or the other way round). Long quotations were also set this way, at full size and full measure.