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> 5.2.1 Use spaced en dashes – rather than em dashes or hyphens – to set off phrases."

– Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

I have done this for years – it looks much better to me than an em dash – so it's nice to have some authority to cite!

Especially unspaced—this is just way too close—I can't even read it.