The Riddle of the Hidden Characters: Contest Answer and Winner!
It’s time to reveal the solution—and the winner—for this month’s InDesignSecrets contest!
This time, you had to decipher the meaning of this image (with a little help from the InDesignSecrets Guide to Special Characters.)

As many of you wrote, the image shows an em space = an en space + a quarter space + a thin space + a thin space.
Or, 1 = 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/8
And the winner is…
Marina Thompson
Marina wins a copy of WordsFlowPro from Em Software!
Thanks to everyone who entered, and be on the lookout for another contest with a new great prize next month!
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on July 30, 2015
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