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Bold vs. Italic: Which Text Style Should You Use for Headlines?

The Heavyweight vs. The Artist When you are scanning a newspaper, a website, or an Instagram feed, what stops you? Almost always, it is big,...

Embrace the Chaos You have seen it. Text that looks like it is melting. Letters with creepy markings floating above and below them, bleeding...

The Death of Rich Text Sometimes you don't have a choice. Maybe you are sending a text message. Maybe you are using a contact form on a website...

The Visual Sarcasm In formal writing, a strikethrough means "delete this." It means an error was made. But on the internet, strikethrough has...

The Return of Y2K Aesthetic Fashion is cyclical. Right now, we are deep in the revival of the late 90s and early 2000s design trends. It’s the...

The Limitations of Gmail Email clients are notoriously stubborn. You spend hours designing a beautiful HTML signature, send it out, and then...

Math on the Internet is Broken If you have ever tried to help a student with homework over chat, or tried to discuss a math problem on Reddit,...

More Than Just Thicker Lines When you bold a word, you aren't just making it thicker. You are changing how the reader's brain processes that...

Up or Down: Why Direction Matters It happens more often than you'd think. Someone tries to write a chemical formula in a hurry and ends up...

It's Not Just About Making Letters Smaller There is a common misconception that small caps are just capital letters shrunk down to a smaller...

LinkedIn: The Professional First Impression LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. Your profile isn't just a resume; it's a...

Why You Can't Underline on Instagram (Normally) Instagram gives you filters, stickers, music, and AI editing tools, but it refuses to give you a...