Braille 2015

October is National Disability Awareness Month. Released during the last week of September in North America, this design is reminiscent of the "Ghost" Starbucks Card, as it's translucent is appearance. The Card has the braille to the left of the sirens eye that says "Starbucks". This is the 5th year for this series and the 4th design *. The Braille system is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write, and was the first digital form of writing that was devised in 1825 by Louis Braille. Each Braille character, or cell, is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two columns of three dots each. A dot may be raised at any of the six positions to form sixty-four (2 6 ) possible subsets, including the arrangement in which no dots are raised. * Fall Braille was originally released in 2011, and re-released in 2012. 2013 was the Black Braille and 2014 was Braille 2014. In 2015, the 2014 was re-released in many markets (In general, the Cards haven't been that popular with customers and maybe that's why we're seeing the previous years stock). Braille 2015 is showing up in various markets in early 2016.