Cristian

@Ms. Billie M. Spaight “The standard hyphen key on most keyboards produces a hyphen-minus character, which is a combination of the hyphen and minus sign”. One of the best references in typography comes - not unexpectedly - from Microsoft (their typography website is exceptional): <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/punctuation/dashes-hyphens" target="_blank">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/punctuation/dashes-hyphens</a>/ “Em dashes (—), en dashes (–), hyphens (-), and minus signs (−) aren't interchangeable symbols. Follow these guidelines to help you use them the right way, in the right places.“ To make this even more technical - in the initial ASCII notation there is no distinction between a hyphen and a minus; a single character, known as the hyphen-minus (ASCII 45 or U+002D), serves both purposes. In modern systems that support Unicode, a distinct "true minus" sign (U+2212 ) is available for mathematical contexts, designed to match the height and thickness of a plus sign, while the hyphen-minus is shorter and sits lower. So: EM dash - widest (as wide as a “m” letter) EN dash - in-between width (as wide as a “n” letter) Hyphen-minus - shorter than EN dash True minus - most of the time same width as hyphen minus - but sits higher from baseline than hyphen-minus - at the same height as the horizontal part of the plus sign. On the plain QWERTY keyboard - most of us use minus and hyphen with the same key.