Hello, I am creating a game and would like to know the proper way to write a message that references single letters and single words. Below is my best attempt: Great job, you found a clue. A newspaper with the headline Gold Standard News. The letters G in "Gold" and N in "News" are emboldened.
That toally works, but other approaches could work as well. For instance rather than quotation marks around the words Gold and News you could have just italicized them. And I would probably say Bolded rather than Emboldened. I think the word Emboldened only refers to making a person more courageous, not bolding letters. See, I think what I just did works too—I didn't italicize either Bolded or Emboldened, just capitalized them. You probably don't even need to italicize your single G and N either. Sometimes simpler is better. I try to go as simple as I can, as long as it's still clear. So I might just say: Great job, you found a clue—a newspaper with the headline Gold Standard News with the G in Gold and the N in News bolded. I decided to use an em-dash rather than a period after Clue, because it probably should be one sentence. The second part is explaining what the clue is that's been found. Separating it into two sentences sounds a bit off to me. In fact I just turned it all into one sentence. It seems to flow a little better. And reading over it again, I think I would take out the in Gold and in News at the end, but I think it's just a sample sentence used to demonstratre something, isn't it? Just to show what I mean: Great job, you found a clue—a newspaper with the headline Gold Standard News with the G and the N bolded. It isn't perfect, because there is another N (a lower-case one), but I don't think it's confusing because you're using a capitol N to refer to the other capitol N.
You could be subtle and write: Great job, you found a clue—a newspaper with the headline Gold Standard News
