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Here's a font designed to break the minds of Japanese readers by looking way too much like Katakana. This is similar to how Я and И in fake Cyrillic fonts parses as 'R' and 'N' to people who don't read Cyrillic, but makes it really hard on those who do. https://www.sbs.com.au/popasia/blog/2015/11/11/font-confuses-japanese-speakers …pic.twitter.com/WyR2BCZvp4
PIX Symbols Faux Japanese Regular is a similar idea, but mixes hiragana and katakana just like the cruel Japanese writing system itself. https://www.fontsplace.com/pixymbols-faux-japanese-regular-premium-font-download.html …pic.twitter.com/tgqZskQ0Gm
These are just called "fonts in Eastern style". Four are faux Arabic, but the fifth is an awesome example of faux Hindi Cyrillicpic.twitter.com/7bNlBgszxE
I'm curious about other examples like these faux fonts that are a low-pass filter for knowledge. Normally, the more you know, the easier it is to do things, but in these scripts knowing the language makes it impossible to read with the speed and fluency of a non-speaker.
Further poking around reveals a l33t-speak like way of writing Japanese that uses Cyrillic letters and all kinds of punctuation. Gyaru-moji!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyaru-moji
Martian Language (吙☆魰) is a similar phenomenon in written Chinese:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_language …
So one term of art for these things is apparently "simulation typefaces". I would love to have more examples of them for non-latin scripts (like Arabic calligraphy pretending to be Chinese characters)pic.twitter.com/5cJSEqUMVe
Sini is a Chinese calligraphic form of Arabic script. It's not really part of the pattern here (since it's entirely legible Arabic, just done with Chinese tools and techniques), but it's too cool not to mention here. https://mvslim.com/this-is-sini-a-chinese-islamic-calligraphy-form-of-the-arabic-script/ …pic.twitter.com/6PTQ9ULft2
This is so completely my jam, thank you.
Merry Xmas!
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