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Red Is Not Danger Everywhere: Why Design Agents Need a Cultural Color Lexicon
Design agents perceive color exactly but inherit Western color semantics — red means danger in US/EU training data and prosperity in China and India. A market-scoped color lexicon separates the culture-bound layer of color judgment from the universal WCAG layer.
Script-Aware Typography: 4 Rules Design Agents Need to Stop Breaking Non-Latin Text
Western-trained design agents clip Devanagari matras, collide Arabic diacritics, and never wrap CJK. Four computable per-script rules turn typography into lint.
Text Density as Agent-Perceivable Signal: Designing for Global Information Cultures
Why dense interfaces read as trust in Japan, China, India, and RTL markets — and how design agents can score density with market context instead of a monolithic Western baseline.
What an AI Design Agent Can Perceive About RTL (Arabic) Web Design — Direction as a Computable Design Signal
Most AI design agents assume left-to-right, Latin-script layouts. This review maps the machine-readable signals of Arabic RTL design — dir attributes, logical vs physical CSS properties, connected-script typography — into one computable rule an agent can enforce with a single stylesheet pass.