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[[File:stupidfont.jpg|link=Aladdin (Disney film)|frame|Because reading Arabic is tricky.]]

 

If a movie or cartoon is set in a particular [[Hollywood History|period]] or [[Hollywood Atlas|region]], sometimes the creator might want to show certain details to the audience through a sign in the background. However, said most of the audience are educated in the English language. So in order to avoid breaking the feel of the setting, the scene might just have English text in written with a [[Useful Notes/Fonts|typeface]] [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign|emulating the writing style of that region]] [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe|or period]].

 

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== Anime & Manga ==

* The English-language cover art for ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'', both anime and manga, uses a Japanese-styled font for the title. Bonus points for using actual katakana characters turned Latin characters.