FUNCTION

The ellipsis (or dot dot dot) is a punctuation symbol used to indicate a missing part of a text (incomplete or untold) or a rhetorical pause…

DESIGN

An ellipsis is composed of three periods aligned next to each other. It is advised to place the periods closer together than three actual periods to avoid an exaggerated gap in texts. In Chinese, the ellipsis has six dots instead of three and is traditionally center-aligned.

TYPOGRAPHIC RULES

In most languages, when an ellipsis indicates a string of missing text, it is surrounded by parentheses (…).

If it’s placed at the end of a sentence, the ellipsis is followed by a space after the period to introduce the next sentence.