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Other examples include the use of Ш for W, Ц for U, Я/Г for R/backwards and upside-down L, Ф for O, Д for A, Б, Ь, or Ъ for B/b, З, Э, or Ё for E, Ч or У for Y. Outside the Russian alphabet, Џ (from Serbian) can act as a substitute for U, Ғ (from Turkic languages) for F, Ә (from Turkic languages, Abkhaz, Dungan, Itelmen, Kalmyk ...
An intriguing catchphrase typography upside down invites the reader to rotate the magazine, in which the first names "Michael" or "Peter" are transformed into "Nathalie" or "Alice". [107] [108] In 2015 iSmart's logo on one of its travel chargers went viral because the brand's name turned out to be a natural ambigram that read "+Jews!" upside down.
A common modern usage of mirror writing can be found on the front of ambulances, where the word "AMBULANCE" is often written in very large mirrored text, so that drivers see the word the right way around in their rear-view mirror. It is also on fire engines and police cars too. Some people are able to produce handwritten mirrored text.
An example of a font that uses turned small-capital omega ꭥ for the vowel letter ʊ. The symbol had originally been a small-capital ᴜ . Among consonant letters, the small capital letters ɢ ʜ ʟ ɴ ʀ ʁ , and also ꞯ in extIPA, indicate more guttural sounds than their base letters – ʙ is a late exception.
The Cherokee character Ꮩ (do) has a different orientation in old documents, an upside-down letter V, flipped as compared to modern documents. [b] There is also a handwritten cursive form of the syllabary; [26] notably, the handwritten glyphs bear little resemblance to the printed forms.
Reversed text can use capital letters mixed with lowercase, as opposed to the strict lowercase used by upside-down transformation (upside-down lowercase and capital letters do not generally align as they would upright, though reversed letters do).
Typos can do more than damage the credibility of a publication. Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for ...
For example, in Asian editions of Windows, Asian fonts are also available in a vertical version, with font names prefixed by "@". [11] Users can compose and edit the document as normal horizontal text. When complete, changing the text font to a vertical font converts the document to vertical orientation for printing purposes.