History Main / ForeignLookingFont

** Überwaldian is shown with a blackletter font.

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* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'': ''Crazy Hakim's Discount Fertilizer'' is written in Arabic brushstrokes on a sign near a cart of manure near the end of the "One Jump" chase scene. The title itself and the opening credits also appear in ForeignLookingFont. No ''real'' Arabic appears in the movie at all, with the possible exception of a sign over Jafar's door; it's either English in a foreign-looking font or random scribbles that look like what Arabic looks like to people who don't speak Arabic.

* ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'': The animated series has words written on buildings that are clearly English words made to look Greek.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} books, Creator/TerryPratchett sometimes plays with this. For example, in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', dialogue in Klatchian is written in an Arabic font, and words written by the golems are in an archaic font, to invoke their background in Judaic myth.
** From the Annotated Pratchett File:
-->The font used by the golems in the UK editions is clearly designed to look like Hebrew lettering. For some reason, the font used in the American editions is not.
** In "Feet of Clay", the Golems use the Hebrewish looking font. In "Making Money", Golems use the Eochian alphabet created/discovered by Doctor John Dee, astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I.

*** lampshaded in ''Jingo'' by 71-Hour Achmed, who is posing as a sort of 'joke' Klatchian for reasons of his own. His "H'I go, h'I come back' phrase is based on a character in the once-popular 1940s BBC radio series ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_That_Man_Again ITMA]]''.

* Unusyally for ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', the titles for ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' use a stylized, heavily angled brushtroke font as a nod to the Japanese origin of the fight footage.

* The cover text of Nothing but Noise's ''Not Bleeding Red'' is written in an [[StarWars Aurebesh-style]] script.

* Carol Twombly's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithos Lithos]] typeface is based on Greek letters, though it has the Latin alphabet and Arabic numbers... though it is now frequently used for an African or Native American feel.

* The title of Creator/GameArts' UsefulNotes/PC88 game ''Harakiri'' is written in vaguely Sino-Japanese-looking romaji. Considering that the game was only released in Japan, the title might have been intended to parody this trope.

* When {{Those Wacky Nazis}} created an art exhibition to brainwash their people into believing that all Jews were not only {{Greedy Jew}}s, but also [[AlwaysChaoticEvil dishonest, disloyal and murderous]] {{Dirty Communists}}, the advertising for their exhibition [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plakat_der_ewige_Jude,_1937.jpg bore writing that looks like Hebrew script]] but reads "Der ewige Jude" (German for "The eternal Jew").

* ''ComicStrip/Pogo'' offers a variation based on job rather than country: showman P.T. Bridgeport speaks in circus-poster fonts, Deacon Muskrat in churchy medieval script.

* ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' (2004) has this with all the map fonts throughout (eg, Hindi-style script for the Chyrons in India, etc.).

* ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'' misappropriates Cyrillic letters resembling Latin ones to make Soviet propaganda posters and official documents intelligible to an Anglophone audience. The effect is to remind the audience that the events takes place in the USSR and to highlight the farcical absurdity of the real events depicted; it coincides nicely with the fact that the British and American actors [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent don't even bother with the accent]].

* ''Film/AroundTheWorldIn80Days'' (2004) has this with all the map fonts throughout (eg, Hindi-style script for the Chyrons in India, etc.).

* The title of Creator/GameArts' PC88 game ''Harakiri'' is written in vaguely Sino-Japanese-looking romaji. Considering that the game was only released in Japan, the title might have been intended to parody this trope.

* The various forms of Chinese Restaurant Font, collectively called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonton_font "Wonton Font"]] by TheOtherWiki. A Roman font meant to be reminiscent of the strokes of Chinese characters, which graces every Asian restaurant in the universe outside Asia itself. There's even specifically a font called [[http://www.dafont.com/chinese-takeaway.font "Chinese Takeaway,"]] ostensibly used for this purpose.

** Red Alert 3 had recently joined the faux-Cyrillic bandwagon, given the nature and setting of the game.
** ''688: Attack Sub'' similarly used a fake-Cyrillic font (all Rs are reversed, Es are 3s, etc) when playing a mission from the Soviet side, but thankfully provided a key combination to reset text to the standard font.

* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'': ''Crazy Hakim's Discount Fertilizer'' is written in Arabic brushstrokes on a sign near a cart of manure near the end of the "One Jump" chase scene. The title itself and the opening credits also appear in ForeignLookingFont. No ''real'' Arabic appears in the movie at all, with the possible exception of a sign over Jafar's door; it's either English in a foreign-looking font or random scribbles that look like what Arabic looks like to people who don't speak Arabic. (Arabic Is Just A Bunch Of Scribbles should be a trope.)

* Several FuManchu book covers (and movie and television posters) often feature English words written in Asian brushstrokes.

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