There’s a recent proposal of jamming a special unicode character, narrow no-break space, between every character in specific words as a way to make them stand out to sighted users without breaking screenreaders.

This sentence contains an e x a m p l e. It reads as the word “example” on Siri, but there are plenty of other screenreaders and environments in use where it reads as separate letters.

https://idiomdrottning.org/re-sperrsatz-emphasis

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I think there's nothing wrong with italic, bold or underline. It just depends a lot on the context which one to use, not stopping at print/screen, and I think a lot of designers use it wrong (bold instead of italics for <em> often).

@j12i I think Sparrsatz is fine for display purposes when used semantically or in a print format. It has problems when used to emulate emphasis in a system where there is no inline markup available.
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