Hemingway Editor settings guide

Target Grade 6–9 reading level for blog posts and marketing copy.

Red highlights = very hard to read sentences — break them into two. Yellow = hard to read.

Adverb highlights (blue) tell you where your verbs aren't strong enough — 'ran quickly' becomes 'sprinted'; removing adverbs forces more precise, powerful writing.

Use Hemingway for email subject lines specifically.

Hemingway works offline and has no AI sending your text to a server — paste confidential legal, financial, or client content without privacy concerns.

Use passive voice highlights (green) to find weak constructions — 'the report was written by the team' → 'the team wrote the report'. Active voice is always shorter and clearer.

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