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I shamefully bumped up the font size on my phone... also video games I am constantly sizing it up, although that could be because I still only have a 35” old TV not a monster like maybe most people? I’ll have to see if my kobo had Garamond or maybe it is already the default.

I’ve been listening to K-Pop while I work out recently it is very motivating. I will have to check out their design side!!! I know the anime merch side is getting killer with shirt designs and stuff it is so tempting 😭😭😭

Recently, I was reading a romance manga (A Sign of Affection) about a deaf girl in college who falls for a guy at her college who is like a world traveller type and he asks to learn sign so he can communicate directly to her (so cute 💗I DIE OK 😭) anyway the author really put a lot of love and care into the representation of sign and includes so many little notes about it. Apparently Japanese sign is based on the different visual meanings of kanji and it changes based on locale and age! So sign for the elderly has different gestures than for young folks. So interesting! They have someone consult on all the sign they put in the story for accuracy and make sure to interview and research a variety of folks to ensure the representation isn’t harmful. It is one of my favourite stories. When the main character can’t fully understand something by lip reading the author puts that word backwards and reversed letters in the text so you as the reader also can’t parse it until it’s clarified again by the person speaking, it’s a story crafted with a lot of love and detail.

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I also buy food and beverages a lot based on design 😹😇

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