Monday, April 12, 2010

The trouble with hybrids

Lookit this pretty font I found while I was pretending to be OTMA's* designer instead of its author:


OMG, I LOVES THAT.

But oh wait, it's a latin-cyrillic hybrid font, so look at the dumb things that happen when I add the subtitle:


I guess it's supposed to look exotic and Russiany, but if you are a person who actually reads Russian, this is what your mind says when your eyes try to read those words: D Iovel of Yaomanov Yaussia

OMG, I HATES THAT.

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*I have neglected to mention that Madame Editor and I seem to have settled on an official title for OTMA. As you may have guessed by now, it's Daughters of the Tsar: A Novel of Romanov Russia.