Basic Trope: A font that looks foreign to give off a foreign motif.
- Straight: The work takes place in India and only has curvy text with lines placed over it.
- Exaggerated: The text looks so Hindi-like that it is unreadable.
- Downplayed: An Indian restaurant sign only has the first letter being curvy.
- Justified: The Indian restaurant is located in an anglophone part of India.
- Inverted: Angular Hindi that looks European is used in Europe and the Americas...
- Subverted: ...except it turns out that the text was Hindi resembling Latin text...
- Double Subverted: ...but turns that it was actually overzealously Hindi-fied English.
- Parodied:
- The official script of India is a curly Latin alphabet with lines over it.
- In India, the curly Latin alphabet is found everywhere, the USA has angular hiragana, Arabia has long Chinese characters, Greece has a curvy Cyrillic script, Mongolia has vertical Arabic, and in Russia the only script in sight is a rectangular Burmese alphabet.
- Zig Zagged: Different parts of the country follow this style, while some just use Hindi.
- Owing to a quirk of history post-nuclear war and with the availiability of computer systems, all languages wind up using Latin phonetic alphabets. To be able to understand it, a viewer needs to know both languages. Meanwhile, every English word is spelled exactly like its dictionary phonetic punctuation guide.
- Averted: लातिनी वर्णमाला भारत में स्थितियों जहां यह तार्किक होगा में छोड़कर नहीं किया जाता है, बाकी सब कुछ हिन्दी में Translation
- Enforced: The viewers can't read Hindi.
- Lampshaded: "We don't have an alphabet, just a typeface."
- Invoked:
- Indians begin using English more often to make American tourists like India.
- Translator Microbes deliberately do this to flag the original language of texts. Similarly, foreign languages are their native language given a light tinge of the language's accent.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: In order to preserve their culture, the Indian government bans the curly Latin alphabet and requires everyone to speak Hindi.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: The people of India become ashamed of their alphabet just being a typeface...
- Reconstructed: ...but then decide it is a cool typeface and embrace it.
- Implied: A tourist who goes to India constantly grumbles that learning Hindi was apparently pointless.
- Played For Laughs: Global Retractions Publishing attempts to publish 'translations' to India by changing the font at the demands of their Pointy-Haired Boss. Cut to a gag where thirty speakers of the most common main languages in India there look at each other in confusion and ask if they can read that.
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