Special Stamps

There a variety of cases when a stamp is meant to be a word or phrase but does not follow the conventional rules of spelling or grammar:

• Stamps with wordplay or puns.
• Stamps where a word or letter is replaced with an shape, emoji-style image or other image (such as a sun in place of an "O" like this: "L☀️ve").
• Stamps designed to let the creator fill in the blank with a word or phrase (for example, one stamp might read "Have a birthday" with space between "a" and "birthday" and then come stamps that have the words "happy," "great" or "terrific," allowing you to great multiple variations).
• Similarly, stamps designed to use two or more stamps to complete a single sentiment. These typically include stamps with a blank area and a phrase or sentence that may not make sense without the additional stamp(s) or may be incomplete.

We have some specific guidelines for how those are handled:

• For puns or wordplay, we first show you the text as it appears on the stamp as the title of that stamp.
• We then enter the stamp's text how it would read without the pun or wordplay and put it in parentheses in the full text view. This allows users to search for a particular word and see results that contain the word exactly as entered (e.g., spelled "correctly" without any wordplay or puns) as well as instances where the word may have been used in a more clever way.
• You ultimately can decide whether or not you want to use a particular stamp if it has wordplay, puns or images.
• For instances where shapes replace a letter, we call the stamp using the full word without symbols. For example, "L☀️ve" would be entered as "Love."
• For stamps where you can swap out different words or phrases in a specific spot, we include the letters shown on the stamp as manufactured with "(...)" or where the "blank" is. The full text field then contains the possible variants using words from the same stamp set only.
• For stamps where another stamp in the same set is designed to fill an empty space, we include the words as they appear on the stamp in the title. Then, in the full text field, we include what the sentiment is designed to say and put the text that comes from another stamp in parentheses. In cases where multiple text combinations are possible within the same set, we include those as well. There may, of course, be numerous option stamps you could use to fill the space, which are not indicated.
• When a stamp has a space to fill in characters (with stamps or just by handwriting it), we use the underscore ("_") to indicate the blank. In cases where the design suggests a specific number of characters, we'll use multiple underscores separated by a space along with any characters included on the stamp. For example, a stamp with a spot to fill in a date would appear as "_ _ /_ _/_ _".
• For ordinal indicators or suffixes (st, th, rd, nd) used to create ordinal numbers (such as "9th"), we use the letters and numbers shown on the stamp as the title. In the full text field, we enter both the numerical ("9th") and spelled out ("ninth").