number & glyphs

different variations of number notations

  1. Important Notes
  2. Decimal point notation
  3. Metrics and delimiters

Important Notes

Seperators and accentuations like dot, comma, space, etc are differently used in german and english display of numbers.

Decimal point notation

All english decimal-point notations (except for south african english) should always be seperated by dots.

example de

German decimal-point notation


example en

English decimal-point notation

Thousand point notation

All english thousand-point notations (except for south african english) should always be seperated by commas.

example de

German thousand-point notation


example en

English thousand-point notation

Spacing and seperators

All metrics, glyph, spacers and delimiters are spaced apart by one to improve readability. Examples are:

150 ml ( 150ml ) 35,50 € ( 35,50€ ) 10 % discount ( 10% discount ) GOODIES | LILA LOVES IT ( GOODIES|LILA LOVES IT ) Yummy - our doog food. ( Yummy-our doog food. )

The only exception are count/times selecotrs, like:

1x ( 1 x ) 15x ( 15 x )