• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    What’s that weird thing in comics where random words are emboldened and italicised? It’s quite disconcerting.

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      10 days ago

      Usually it’s not random, it’s meant to help convey speech cadence or how certain words in a spoken sentence might be stressed more.

      Like how farm is larger because that word would be stressed more in that spoken sentence.

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      10 days ago

      It denotes how much emphasis someone lays onto that word/phrase. With round bubbles being spoken and spiky ones being yelled.