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This effect is usually restricted to text set in All Caps , because Cyrillic letter-forms don't match well with lower case Latin letters.In Cyrillic Typography , most upright lower case letters resemble smaller upper case letters, unlike the more distinctive forms of Latin-alphabet type. Cursive Cyrillic upper and lower case letters are more differentiated. Cyrillic letter-forms are originally derived from tenth-century Greek manuscript, but the modern forms more closely resemble Latin since Peter the Great's Civil Script Reform of 1708. This is a common Western Trope used in book covers, film titles, comic book lettering, and Art work for Computer Game s which are set in or wish to evoke Eastern Europe , the Soviet Union , or the Russian Federation . An early example was the Logo for Norman Jewison 's film '' The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming ''; more are listed below. Not all examples of typography with mirror-imaged Latin characters are Faux Cyrillic. For example, Toys Я Us and KoЯn use a backwards letter ''R'', in the former to embody childlike innocence, in the latter to evoke an ironically grim crudeness. The "NIИ" Wordmark of Nine Inch Nails uses a backwards ''N'' to create a formalistic symmetry. FAUX CYRILLIC CHARACTERS ]] EXAMPLES OF FAUX CYRILLIC
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