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Underlining for emphasis?

November 18, 2013 at 5:35pmJuly 25, 2014 by gladden.9@osu.edu

Underlining for emphasis is not typographically correct. On the web underlining should only be used to indicate hyperlinks.

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Posted in Typography Tips Tagged typewriters 1 Comment

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