Turn straight quotes into curly smart quotes and style a pull-quote in one of four layouts, then copy the text or ready-to-paste HTML.
Curly smart quotes are what publishers, books and polished websites actually use, not straight ditto marks.
Pick a pull-quote treatment that matches your layout without writing any CSS.
Copy clean attributed text for captions, or a real HTML blockquote for your page.
Most keyboards only offer straight quote marks, " and ', because they double as inches and feet symbols and are simpler to type, but professionally set text almost never uses them. This tool converts every straight double quote to a curly opening or closing mark, “ or ”, based on whether it follows whitespace, punctuation or the start of the text, and does the same for single quotes and apostrophes, producing ‘ and ’. Apostrophes get special handling: when a straight apostrophe sits directly between two letters or digits, as in "don't" or "the '90s", it's recognized as a contraction or elision and converted to a closing curly apostrophe rather than an opening single quote, which is the mistake most naive find-and-replace scripts make. Once the text is smart-quoted, it's dropped into one of four pull-quote layouts built from this site's purple-to-teal palette: a large centered serif italic for editorial feel, a left border accent for a clean sidebar callout, a minimal italic for understated inline use, or a boxed gradient card for a stronger visual moment. The HTML you copy is a plain, semantic blockquote with a paragraph and an optional footer, with no inline styling baked in, so it inherits whatever typography your own site already uses.
Opening and closing marks are chosen based on surrounding characters, not just alternating.
Apostrophes inside words are treated as apostrophes, not opening single quotes.
A plain blockquote/p/footer snippet that inherits your site's own styling.
Every straight double quote (") becomes a curly opening or closing double quote depending on its position, and every straight apostrophe or single quote (') becomes a curly opening or closing single quote the same way.
When a straight apostrophe sits directly between two letters or digits, such as in don't or the '90s, it's treated as a contraction or elision and converted to a closing curly apostrophe rather than an opening single quote.
Yes, there are four styles: large serif centered, left border accent, minimal italic, and a boxed card, all built from this site's purple and teal palette.
A self-contained blockquote element with your smart-quoted text in a paragraph and, if you added an attribution, a footer with an em dash before the name, ready to paste into any HTML page.
Yes. All formatting happens locally in your browser using plain JavaScript, and nothing you type is ever uploaded.
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