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-Bowtie is a *meta*-validator of the `JSON Schema specification <https://json-schema.org/>`_, by which we mean it coordinates executing *other* `validator implementations <https://json-schema.org/implementations.html>`_, collecting and reporting on their results.
+🔍 Bowtie is a *meta*-validator of the `JSON Schema specification <https://json-schema.org/>`_, by which we mean it coordinates executing *other* `validator implementations <https://json-schema.org/implementations.html>`_, collecting and reporting on their results.
 
 To do so it defines a simple input/output protocol (specified in `this JSON Schema <https://github.com/bowtie-json-schema/bowtie/blob/main/bowtie/schemas/io.json>`_) which validator implementations can implement, and it provides a CLI which can execute supported implementations.
 
-It's called Bowtie because it fans in lots of JSON then fans out lots of results: ``>·<``.
+🎀 It's called Bowtie because it fans in lots of JSON then fans out lots of results: ``>·<``.
 Looks like a bowtie, no?
-Also because it's elegant – we hope.
+Also because it's elegant – we hope. ✨
 
-For more information, see `Bowtie's documentation <https://docs.bowtie.report/>`_.
+📚 For more information, see `Bowtie's documentation <https://docs.bowtie.report/>`_.