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"The system can't handle her real name"

An illustrated comics-style collage of different pinned and taped text examples of words with macrons (the line over the vowel) that are glitchy -- a different font, and / or font weight, or showing up as just a box, or as html code rather than the actual letterIllustration by Toby Morris via The Spinoff

Etrigan has posted The Side Eye: The Stink A, linking to The Spinoff's really well-done and fascinating infographic on "the glitchy macron" that highlights how font decisions and usage can have an outsized impact on non-Anglo populations.

02/01/23
by taz

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