: Nice question. It seems to be some non-latin fonts designed to resemble latin-ish, but in my opinion is very difficult judge whether they resemble latin for all the world cultures or not.

@Chiappetta793

Nice question. It seems to be some non-latin fonts designed to resemble latin-ish, but in my opinion is very difficult judge whether they resemble latin for all the world cultures or not.


To be more clear, I'm used to latin characters and for me your examples could look like Devanagari, Kufic Arabic and Katakana characters. I'm not so sure that this resemblance exists for the people who natively use those fonts.


Having said this, I've found a few examples and articles on the net:

Big Caslon Thai seems to look latin (but you have to ask to a Thai if it looks like latin!):



Helvetica Thai is designed to be similar to Helvetica:



Karmic Sanj and GHW Adhiapak Unicode Gurmukhi are looking like a 180° rotated hand writings:



Here are examples of matching Hebrew and Latin, and if you rotate the examples, they are latin looking:



Some related links:


There are decorative fonts that mimic the appearance of other writing systems (Chinese, Arabic, Indic, etc.). Are there fonts in other writing systems designed to imitate the appearance of the Latin alphabet?
Matching Hebrew and Latin
Miscellaneous Truetype Gurmukhi Fun fonts
On loops and Latinisation

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