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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 10/05/2026

Hello, Friend! 👋 We are Hand Design, a team of two cryptids (@harleygin.bsky.social & @cbrails.bsky.social) who specialize in design & dev in the fandom / creative (animation, comics, games, & film) industry. ⟡ Website: hand-designed.com ⟡ Contact: hand-designed.com/contact/

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Hand Design Co.

Hand Design Co. is a team of two folks who specialize in design and development with a splash of geekiness & whimsical fun.

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

If you run a video game studio and would love a delightful design for your company's website consider reaching out to us at @hand-designed.com: ✦ hand-designed.com Starting at: $2.5K • Availability start in late March • We offer various payment options & try our best to work with folks' budget. 💜

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Hand Design Co.

Hand Design Co. is a team of two folks who specialize in design and development with a splash of geekiness & whimsical fun.

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Mehgazone🏳️‍⚧️ @mehgazone.com · 17/04/2026

I highly recommend @hand-designed.com if you have a webcomic and want to host it on your own personal website.

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 02/04/2026

Client Logo Reveal: The Moonies Club 🌙 Website coming soon~! We have branding openings starting in May: hand-designed.com

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Three of the latest @hand-designed.com clients asked for a Y2K aesthetic look. I can show one right, but another is being built out right now & the other is in design phase Girltaku asked for a girly pop, Y2K & got it all, including a scrolling marquee, chunky UI, and gradients galore girltaku.com

Girltaku website. A bright, vibrate color palette with black borders and heavy font

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Working on the @yattatachi.com redesign and made a few important badges to have in our footer Thinking about offering this to all @hand-designed.com clients (new & old)

Working on the redesign of Yatta-Tachi's website. Presenting the footer section which has a heart-shaped pride flag, a Proudly Human made badge (made by me) and a NO Gen AI Used badge (also made by me)

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Also to add that any website done by Hand Design is 100% coded and designed by two humans (me & my fiancé) and we are strongly against the use of AI in any capacity in our clients' projects. It's part of the meaning behind the studio's name! Hand(made) + Design.

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Every so often I like to revisit sites I've designed and the one I did for @vnstudioelan.com is STILL one of my top favorites We aimed for soft motifs of yuri elements and the whimsy, calm feeling of a flower garden with big arched windows. vnstudioelan.com

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Studio Élan Official Website

We are a game development studio telling yuri love stories combined with magic and fantasy. Home of Heart of the Woods, Highway Blossoms, and more!

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Spinning a lot of plates right now for @hand-designed.com! Finishing up a website design & logo for one client that I’m hoping to share very soon Starting another client website redesign next week (for someone many of y’all know) Working on another cover design for Manga Mavericks

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 24/01/2026

🎉 SITE LAUNCH: Calcopia Nathan and his team retired their site, Popzara, and wanted to launch a brand-new site, Calcopia. Inspired by tech sites and new age, modern aesthetics. calcopia.com

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Calcopia Press - Original Content You'll Love

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

If you know anyone who's hiring a front-end web developer remotely, please share Chris' info with them! His current place is giving off bad vibes, so he is looking for opportunities. He's the other half to @hand-designed.com so y'all seen his work! cabrailsford.com

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Chris Brailsford - Senior Front-End Developer

Chris Brailsford is an award-winning front-end developer specializing in WordPress and focused on accessibility & web performance.

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 15/12/2025

We are happy that we were able to help you!! 💜

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 04/11/2025

Reading the QA proofs for AH Magazine and I'm just stunned. @harleygin.bsky.social did amazing work on this, and it's been a pleasure working with her on the project. As I've said, and will keep saying, hire her and Chris. @hand-designed.com

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 11/09/2025

Ah, shucks! Thanks, Gene! 💖

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Hey, babe! Wake up! @hand-designed.com just launched a new client site! 💚 (FYI we have availability starting early 2026!)

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Sean Aitchison @sean8urson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I know nothing about website building and @hand-designed.com was incredibly hands on in explaining and guiding us ON TOP OF building everything for the site highly recommend hiring them for designing your website!!!

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 09/09/2025

🎉 New Site Launch! We had the absolute honor of redesigning @jellybox.bsky.social's website! It was so much fun working on this project and the team is such a delight! 💚

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Jellybox Studio @jellybox.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

THANK YOU to @hand-designed.com for building our gorgeous new site!!!

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 26/08/2025

Working with @hand-designed.com was the most amazing experience. They really listened, and understood what I wanted, then exceeded my expectations.

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 21/08/2025

Introducing the new Yuricon! Built and designed magnificently by @hand-designed.com, this new look celebrates 25 years of Yuricon! Thank you to all of our patrons and supporters, you made this possible. www.yuricon.com

New Yuricon home page, in pale lavender, and wine red, with a gentle spray of lilies hanging from the top of the page

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Are you going to Anime NYC and would like to meet up to chat business about @yattatachi.com & @hand-designed.com? Hit me up in the DMs! 💖 I'll be sending out a scheduler closer to the con!

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

If you're like "I don't know if I can afford you", we have a sliding scale and offer payment options to small business and creators. We try to our best to work with everyone's budget if possible. It's just me and my fiancé who want to help out the fandom community, not a giant agency.

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🚀 SITE LAUNCH - GIRLTAKU @hand-designed.com designed a highly saturated, maximalist, throwback to 90's website style custom WP theme with all the bells & whistles! Drawing inspiration from old Nick shows websites, @yattatachi.com's aesthetic, & neubrutalism. Visit the site: girltaku.com

Girltaku website: a bright, saturated colors and gradients with black dropshadows with an off white background.

Section on the homepage for their series and events. Their series section has three columns with title and descriptions of each series. The events is a custom block that shows their event poster and quick information of the latest upcoming event.

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 05/07/2025

It's true! We are currently working on redesigning Yuricon!

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

If you have been wanting to work with @hand-designed.com on a website or branding project AND you want it to be done in time for the upcoming convention season (May - Nov), definitely make plans to reach out at least 5 months in advance (July-Feb) depending on what con you're aiming for.

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🚀 Site Launch! We ( @hand-designed.com ) worked with Alexandra to design a Celtic, cottagecore translation portfolio site for her! 🧚 Vibes: Whimsical, Celtic, Fairies, Cottagecore, Feminine 🌱 Colors: soft pinks & greens 📚 Site: aoburns.com

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Welcome - Alexandra Owen-Burns

I’m Alexandra Owen-Burns, a translator of Japanese media for over 5 years. I am deeply passionate about bringing the enjoyment of Japanese media to an English-speaking audience while keeping intact th...

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

In case you missed it, @cbrails.bsky.social and I redesigned @vnstudioelan.com's website! 💜 Check it out: vnstudioelan.com

The new Studio Élan website. A clean, feminine design with a large pastel purple background callout section with their mission statement and image of their mascot.

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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 14/02/2025

Our website just got a major overhaul, thanks to @hand-designed.com! ✨ Check out our new look: vnstudioelan.com

screenshot of the Studio Élan website, showing a pair of women embraced on a purple highlighted section with a navigation bar on top linking to Our Titles, Bellhouse, News, About Us, and Store.

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 14/02/2025

Special elements & customization for this redesign included: • Custom Single Game page: (example: vnstudioelan.com/games/please... ) • Randomized Game Listing component shaped to look like a flower petal (homepage) • Beautifully arched images for CTAs & quick background color change (homepage)

Studio Élan's new game titles display block. Showing random game titles masked into a giant shape of a flower petal.

Game Information section on the New single game's page. Displaying information about the game, including a section for additionals and how to purchase the game.

Patreon support block on the Studio Élan new website. An image of Melanie (SE's mascot) masked in an arch shape on top of a pink background with copy asking folks to support them on patreon.

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 14/02/2025

🚀 Site Launch - Studio Élan ( @vnstudioelan.com ) We had the absolute pleasure of redesigning this amazing yuri visual novel studio's website. Instead of a nondescript theme, we aimed for a theme of soft purples, pinks, & mint with motifs of Studio Élan's white lily. 💜 vnstudioelan.com #gamedev

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Studio Élan Official Website

We are a game development studio telling yuri love stories combined with magic and fantasy. Home of Heart of the Woods, Highway Blossoms, and more!

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 13/02/2025

Along with the custom theme, we also had the honor of designing a visual identity for IWWS as well! Pulling inspiration from Sean's admiration of the Hyades cluster, the V shape of the constellation is interweaved around the company name with bursts of teal and burning orange stars.

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 13/02/2025

🚀 Site Launch - Imagined Worlds Writing Services We worked with @imaginedworlds.bsky.social to design & development them a custom portfolio site! The overall design aesthetic pulled from classic space sci-fi with a flair of whimsy and wonder. Check it out: imaginedworldswriting.com

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Imagined Worlds Writing Services - Writing worlds into being.

Boost your YouTube channel’s performance with engaging writing Imagined Worlds Writing Services Success on YouTube is never guaranteed – but my writing can stack the odds in your favor. Half the battl...

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 25/11/2024

Yay! We get to talk about this! We had the honor of working with @animenewsnetwork.com to make a custom gift guide template for them! ✨

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 18/11/2024

Hey webcomic folks! What’s some of the issues y’all have been dealing with when it comes to the available CMS themes? What do you wish they had? What do you dislike? Would love to hear what y’all have to say!

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 18/11/2024

Yup! Makes complete sense!

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 18/11/2024

We are always down for an old school look, but it shouldn't sacrifice functionality and accessibility. Out of curiosity, are you using the premium version or the free version?

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 18/11/2024

Having a theme that utilizes what WP has to offer is definitely needed for sure. There are so many neat & Quality of life stuff that can done that Classic editor can’t do.

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

People wrote about the murder mystery that @cbrails.bsky.social worked on for Constructed Adventures! I designed a fake contract & child obituary while Chris built a fake restaurant & email portal for guests to find out the connect of the hit and run. people.com/neil-patrick...

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I Spent the Weekend at Neil Patrick Harris' Murder Mystery Party—and Lived to Tell the Tale

We Tried It: I Spent the Weekend at Neil Patrick Harris' Murder Mystery Party in Lenox, MA—and Lived to Tell the Tale

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

My darling partner @cbrails.bsky.social has officially joined! Give him a follow! He’s a goofy, good hearted guy who love to help folks. He’s the other co-founder of @handdesignco.bsky.social. Also the guy that coded the Mob Psycho 100 Spirits & Such site w/ designs by @jacquelantern.bsky.social!

The enter page for the Spirits & Such Consulting site for Crunchyroll

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 12/11/2024

If you want a special way to thank your Patreon folks, consider reaching out to us to make you a custom thank-you page! It's automated and pulls info directly from the Patreon API! Examples of ones we've done: www.animeherald.com/patreon-supp... yattatachi.com/patreon-than...

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Special thank-you to all our Patrons | Yatta-Tachi

A special Thank-you page for all our patrons!

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

A reminder that @handdesignco.bsky.social has spots available for folks who are needing a website, brand/logo work, general graphic design, and/or someone just to look over your site. It's a small web/design agency run by me and my partner @cbrails.bsky.social. hand-designed.com

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Hand Design Co.

Hand Design Co. is a team of two folks who specialize in design and development with a splash of geekiness & whimsical fun.

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Hand Design @hand-designed.com · 11/11/2024

We helped Patricia migrate her webcomics from Squarespace over to WordPress! Lots of quality of life that came from it! Patricia is an absolutely delightful client and does great work! ✨ If you need web design/development done, let’s have a chat: hand-designed.com

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Hand Design Co.

Hand Design Co. is a team of two folks who specialize in design and development with a splash of geekiness & whimsical fun.

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alex @dremenec.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Thank you everyone for sharing this! I and my partner @cbrails.bsky.social are available for general work via @handdesignco.bsky.social (web, dev, design) so if there's something you think we can do, reach out and we can happily chat with you about it! hand-designed.com

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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

You can flip a switch that makes Bluesky prompt you to add ALT text to your images! It's the first item under Accessibility in your Settings.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 19/10/2024

@handdesignco.bsky.social did the new Anime Herald, and I couldn't be more thrilled with their work. Hire them if you need a website.

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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Hey y’all who are joining! We’re trying to make this place as inclusive & accessible as possible so please use ALT text on your images! Beginner advice to help is to pretend like you’re describing the image to someone on the phone. The more descriptive the better especially if it has information!

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