EDITING | PULL-QUOTES

Using the Pull-Quote as Intended on Medium

It’s an archaic typographer’s device; if your writer insists on using it, insist it be used as intended

Pull-Quote properly used | credit: (unattributed) | Wikimedia Commons (royalty free)

Medium provides two types of formatting that can be selected using the double-quotation mark in the editing bar: quotations and pull-quotes.

…pull-quotes, cool cultural references, and roaring italics…

What a pull-quote is

A pull-quote is a

brief, attention-catching quotation, typically in a distinctive typeface, taken from the main text of an article and used as a subheading or graphic feature.
— pull-quote | Lexico by Oxford

Usage in an example sentence is:

‘Around him swirls a text incapable of ever stiffening into sobriety, a flailing, noisy hash of jokes, cool cultural references, pull-quotes, lists and roaring italics.’
— Ibid.

How to format text as a pull-quote

One formats body-text on Medium as a pull-quote by selecting it and double clicking on the quote mark in the editing bar.