Said's Orientalism and Imitation Typographies

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Fonto Fonts (or: Fontologist)
"Dick Pape Futorisugi," a font created by Dick Pape in 2010 imitating script Japanese. Note the stylized dakuten markers on the letters "I," "V," and "W."
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Sumdumgoi, an imitation Japanese font created by De Nada Industries. The letter "C" sports a dakuten.
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"Aceh Darusalem," a font imitating Times New Roman Arabic, created by Gunarta. The numerals also imitate Arabic numerals - note the use of the Arabic "4" for Western "3," and the Arabic "5" for Western "0."
Sholom Font · 1001 Fonts
"Sholom," an imitation Hebrew font created by Typographer Mediengestaltung, FontShop, 1999. Note use of dagesh on the letters "O" and "L."
Imitation Arabic calligraphy spelling out "Egypt," created by Valeriy Barishpolets.
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The Ananda Neptouch 2 font lightly imitating Devanagari, created by Ananda K. Maharjan in 2011.
The Circumcision font imitating Hebrew, created by Matius Gerardo Grieck in 2000.
Ananda Namaste Font - Ananda K. Maharjan
The Ananda Namaste font imitating Devanagari, created by Ananda K. Maharjan in 2011.
Cuneus: a Cuneiform-style font. Cuneiform simulation font
An imitation Cuneiform font named "Cuneus," created by Juan José Marcos in January 2003.
Xu Bing, "The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats" (1999), pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper, (left) 63-3/16″ x 51-1/2″, (right) 63-1/2″ x 51-7/8″; courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The rightmost column reads, "The Golden Apples of the Sun." We should note that Xu Bing's typography is a particularly creative case that doesn't lend itself so easily into digitization into a font.
Chinese contemporary artist Xu Bing invented an English typographic system that imitated Chinese characters. A word in English is constructed as a Chinese character using these letter elements as radicals, a style of Chinese contemporary art imitating traditional Chinese calligraphy, but appealing to the West.