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THE FASLA REVIEW

ISSUE 07AUGUST 2026

CONTENT

Writing UI copy that translates

A small pine on a frosty islet in the mist

Sentence fragments, concatenated strings, and other habits that make localisation expensive.

By Elise FournierMay 19, 20266 min read

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

ACCESSIBILITY
How we test contrast before a component ships
An automated pass over every variant in every mode, run on each pull request. Here is the pipeline.
RTL & ARABIC
Kashida, ligatures, and line height
Three Arabic typesetting features that most component libraries silently disable.
COMMUNITY
What we learned running an office-hours clinic
Twelve weeks of open sessions with product teams, and the three questions that came up every time.
FOUNDATIONS
Optical alignment beats mathematical alignment
Why centred icons never look centred, and the four-pixel corrections we bake into the atoms.