Egyptians speak in hieroglyphics, Normans in the suitably Scandanavian-styled alphabet (with å and ø for a and o), Greeks uses the proto-Greek angular font, the Goths in blackletter, the Amerindians in pictographs, and Romans tend to get into Trajan-esque capitals when getting eloquent (with V replacing U).

Used extensively in Asterix, not only for writing but also in the Speech Bubbles of characters speaking foreign languages.

DC Comics is fond of its use of 'Interlac', a universal language of the future which naturally just looks like the Latin alphabet redone in some 'spacey font'.Typesetting, one of the major tasks in creating anime fansubs, involves finding or in some cases creating fonts to match onscreen Japanese text, which are then placed over or near the original text.Oddly, in a world that speaks English, has English signs, and English words right on the bounty poster, the Fine Print is nothing but a random assortment of letters and characters. One scene in One Piece has a close-up of Luffy's first bounty poster.It doesn't even try to look Japanese a lot of the time, it looks like mixed-up symbols. During Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire saga, the producers used a faux-Japanese text on signs, letters, etc., to make it more 'acceptable' for a global audience.The kanji in Black Butler's title are written in the style of Old English blackletter calligraphy, reflecting the show's Victorian English setting.Bonus points for using actual katakana characters turned Latin characters. The English-language cover art for Excel♡Saga, both anime and manga, uses a Japanese-styled font for the title.

Legend of zelda heiroglyfics font