A banner scurrilously attacking renowned Soviet painter Ivan Gogh https://twitter.com/RANDCorporation/status/1209339418647187456 …pic.twitter.com/ZBG5jO2gps
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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
Normal Japanese is perfectly readable. You just have to learn it, just like the 52 characters of our familiar alphabet.
This is one of the worst things I have ever seen. #FontCrime
Huhhh. The other examples were fine for me, but I read this as “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy noro...?” So weird.
Oh, god. I trip over fake Cyrillic and Greek 'cos I know the alphabets, but this gets me in a different way. I don't know any Hiragana, but recognise it as such, so I see this and my brain goes "Nope, don't understand" and doesn't even try parsing it as English.
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