Editorial
What gets published here, how it is made, and what deliberately does not happen.
What this site is
BdayNote is a small, independent site of birthday images to send. Right now there are 21 cards across 3 sections, with roughly 14781 words of text we wrote ourselves. The numbers on this page are calculated from the collection, not typed by hand — they change on their own when the collection changes.
Who writes it
This site does not use an invented byline. There is no photo and no biography under the text, because that person would not exist. What you read is written by the site’s editorial process, and that is all that can honestly be said.
This English has not been proofread by a professional copyeditor. It is written with care and read back line by line against the images, but that is an internal review and not outside approval. We say so here because it is exactly the kind of thing a reader cannot verify by looking, and it is an open line, not a closed one.
What you will not find here
- No photographs of people. Not even stock photography. A birthday card has to work for anyone who receives it, and a stranger’s face does not help.
- No protected characters. We do not draw film, cartoon, or brand characters, and we do not approximate their style.
- No data about you. Page views and saved images are counted, and that is the whole of it — no advertising, no analytics cookie, nothing stored on your device, nothing that identifies you. The typefaces are hosted here; the counting is the only request that leaves this site, and Privacy spells out what it sends.
- No claims about the world. This site makes no checkable claims about the world — it describes its own images and how to send a greeting. Where we do not know something, we say so.
How the images are made
The drawing and the words follow two separate paths, and that is the most important part of the whole process. The drawing carries no writing at all; the greeting is added afterward, as real text, taken from a file we wrote ourselves. Why is explained in full in How We Work.
Every subject is also checked against a reference list of names and characters before it is drawn. That list is real and measured for this site’s own language — 102 blocked names, 8 cleared generic subjects, 18 open questions — but it is a ruling record, not a trademark search, and it says so on every row. The site’s own head phrase, “happy birthday,” is itself one of the open questions rather than a cleared one; see How We Work for what that means.
Corrections
Reports come in through Contact. A typo in the text on a card is the single most useful report we can receive: the words are the product, and a mistake there makes the image unusable. When we correct a card, the date at the bottom of its page changes.
The publisher’s full details will appear on Legal Notice once the site is live on its own domain.