Pin-aox-y

Filipina/o/x or Pin-a/o/x-y

Or Filipin• [pretend that dot is the symbol - I'm not a computer/font wiz]

I am not an expert on gender identity and sexual orientation, and this study was a valuable and interactive way to learn more. I won't because I can't, not qualified, to expand on this. At its core, it was a fun puzzle to study. I noticed a challenge, an opportunity to problem solve, and just went for it.

Create an " inclusive "letter" or symbol - versus writing each one, which seems inefficient. And I may be lazy. And perhaps, as a designer, I was not too fond of how having all the individual letters in a line looked.

Being a designer is a blessing and a curse. Haha.

The study began by overlaying the three letters and seeing how one symbol created and maintained the original letters.

The main move was two-fold: decrease the height of the letter A to combine with the letter X; the other was to imbalance the center of X to allow A to be as tall as possible within the combined structure. "Skinny-ing" up O helps but not primary.