![installing desktop fonts cover](https://www.colophon-foundry.org/cdn/f/146262/1583x1917/6c640b101c/installing-desktop-fonts-guide.png)
Directional Quotations
![directional quotations cover](https://www.colophon-foundry.org/cdn/f/146262/1319x1597/740094b729/directional-quotations.png)
Information
There are a number of different styles of quotations found within our font files, however the two most ambiguous are the straight quotation '
and directional quotation ’
.
Straight quotation marks, otherwise known as primes, are straight forms that denote measurements. These characters are found on UK & US keyboards to the side of the backslash key, and are represented by unicodes u+0027 ’
and u+0022 ”
.
![primes example](https://www.colophon-foundry.org/cdn/f/146262/2000x1333/9a3c0f32f3/primes-example.jpg)
![directional quotes example](https://www.colophon-foundry.org/cdn/f/146262/2000x1333/86de15e7f0/dir-quote-example.jpg)