The best way to make a text in quotes into a link
Sometimes you may need to make a text in quotes into a link:
![Quoted links](https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/pictures/quoted-link-bad-en@2x.png)
Many designers notice that underlined quote marks look bad, so they exclude them from the link:
![Correctly quoted links](https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/pictures/quoted-link-ok-en@2x.png)
However, meaning-wise and in terms of Fitts’s law, the quote marks should be included in the link: they are related in meaning to the text inside them, not outside them, and it’s easier to click a larger link.
So the best way to make a text in quotes into a link is to make the whole thing a link while underlining only the text:
![Correctly quoted links](https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/pictures/quoted-link-good-en@2x.png)