Faux Cyrillic

Graphic designers sometimes employ faux Cyrillic typography to give a Slavic feel to non-Slavic text, by replacing Latin letters with Cyrillic letters resembling them in appearance. A simple way to accomplish this is to replace capital letters R and N with Cyrillic Я and И, for some "Яussiaи flavour". Other examples include Ш for W, Ц for U, Г for r, Ф for O, Д for A, and Ч or У for Y.

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Graphic designer - Typography - Slavic - Latin - Cyrillic - Я - И

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This is a common Western trope used in book covers, film titles, comic book lettering, and artwork for computer games which are set in the Soviet Union or Russian Federation. An early example was the logo for Norman Jewison's film The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; more are listed below.

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Western - Trope - Book - Film - Comic book - Art - Computer game - Soviet Union - Russian Federation - Logo - Norman Jewison - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

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It should be noted that none of the Cyrillic characters above are pronounced the same way as their Roman lookalikes:

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Faux Cyrillic should not be confused with imitations of small child's erroneous writing of mirrored letters, such as the mirrored "R" in the Toys ? Us toy store name.

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