TierFour

Thank you for the response!

I agree -- and italicized words would convey the same meaning. I don't remember if a different color text was used in WoK, but the idea that only one word out of 1000+ pages be a different color is an interesting (and what I think is) a stylistic choice. And for the non-kindle readers, the way it appears in the book is equivalent to a strobe light -

I am new to this board and relatively new to Sanderson’s work. But so far I am hooked. I am far from the level of understanding that most exhibit here. So forgive the possible lack of merit to the post. I tried to search function and couldn’t find anything, but I wanted to get other’s thoughts on something I found peculiar. When Navani and Dalinar were speaking about his past wife, the kindle version has yellow and italicize text for her name: “Shshshsh.” (Chapter 67; Loc 15689). I understand that Dalinar and the reader are not supposed to know the name yet and "Shshshsh" was used in WoK. But my interest in this is about the typography itself. I have read many kindle books and have never seen that method used. Is there something similar in the physical books? Why the use of this specialized topography here? Thoughts?