Smart Quotes
Convert straight quotes to typographic quotes, smart dashes, and ellipses with language-specific styles.
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About this tool
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Paste your text
Enter text that contains straight quotes (' and ") you want to convert.
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Choose quote style
Select from typographic styles - English curly quotes, guillemets, or other locale-specific formats.
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Convert
The tool replaces straight quotes with the correct opening and closing typographic characters.
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Copy the result
Copy the text with proper smart quotes to your clipboard.
- Apostrophes in contractions (don't, it's) are handled correctly and converted to the proper curly form.
- Nested quotes - a quote within a quote - automatically alternate between double and single styles.
- Use guillemets (« ») for French, Spanish, or other languages that use them as the standard style.
- Check for edge cases like quotes after em dashes or at the start of a paragraph.
- Converts straight quotes to curly typographic quotes
- Handles apostrophes and contractions correctly
- Supports multiple locale styles (English, French, German)
- Processes nested and mixed quotation marks
- Converts both single and double quotes
- Polish manuscript text before submitting to a publisher or editor.
- Clean up blog posts or articles for professional typographic presentation.
- Prepare text for print design where typographic quality matters.
- Fix quotes in text copied from plain-text editors or code environments.
Straight quotes (' ") are the default on keyboards. Smart quotes are the curly, directional versions (‘ ’ “ ”) used in professional typography.
If your text contains code snippets, the quotes inside them will also be converted. Exclude code blocks before processing.
The tool converts all straight quotes. If you need to preserve prime marks for measurements, you may need to manually correct those after conversion.