This site is about the small stuff in text — the quotes, dashes, spaces and odd characters that nobody notices until they’re wrong.
There is plenty of advice online about grammar and style. There is much less about the marks around the words, even though those are what make a page look finished or unfinished. A spell-checker won’t tell you that your quotation marks are the typewriter kind, or that a French text is missing the spaces it needs before its colons, or that the strange symbols in a file are just one encoding being read as another.
The site covers that in two ways: tools that make the changes for you, and articles that explain the rules behind them.
Paste your text in, choose what you want done, copy the result out. They cover typography, capitalization, encoding repair, word counts and comparing two drafts — the sort of job that takes an afternoon by hand and a second by script.
Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you paste is sent anywhere or saved, because there is no server to send it to. That means you can use them on material you would not want to upload, and they keep working if your connection drops after the page has loaded.
They are free, and there is nothing to sign up for.
When a tool changes something and you want to know why, or when you would rather make the change yourself, the blog covers the reasoning: punctuation conventions in different languages, where the main style guides disagree with each other, how text encoding goes wrong and what the damage tells you.
Typography advice online is mostly copied from other typography advice online, which is how a mistake survives for 10 years. The articles here work from the actual sources instead — the bodies that set spelling and punctuation rules for their own languages, the published style guides, the technical standards for character encoding — and each article lists what it used at the end, so you can check the reasoning rather than take my word for it.
Where the sources disagree, and on spacing questions they often do, the article says so rather than picking one and presenting it as settled.
If something here is wrong, or right in general but wrong for your language or your house style, tell me and it gets fixed.
The site is published by fuyugaki.
It is paid for by advertising, which covers the hosting and the time the research takes. There is no paid version and there are no affiliate links, and nothing here is recommended because someone paid for it.
Bug reports, corrections and suggestions are all welcome. The contact page has the address.