Hanging punctuation is a typographic technique that involves shifting punctuation marks past the outer boundary of a text box into the surrounding margins, typically on the left side when dealing with standard left-to-right, left-aligned text, in order to establish a smoother and more aesthetically pleasing vertical alignment. Ordinarily, keeping punctuation within the standard boundaries creates a jagged, uneven edge that disrupts how the reader’s eye perceives the text alignment, a problem frequently seen in pull quotes where large opening quotation marks push the text inward and create an awkward optical indentation. By placing these specific marks out into the negative space of the margin instead, the actual characters of the text align flawlessly along a uniform visual plane, significantly enhancing the overall rhythm and layout of the page.
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