For a good example of this take a look at the UK Japan 2008 project on Johnsonbanks website or this eye article. Michael Johnson’s project to make a ‘phonetic typeface’ that English speakers can understand.

http://www.johnsonbanks.co.uk/

I came across a Japanese website which had this Kanji symbol for hito meaning person (correct me if I’m wrong) twice underlined as a hyperlink, which I saw as meaning bikini. I don’t think it can really be counted as one of the interesting graphic opportunities I was talking about but hey.

Here’s how this ridiculous misuse of an ancient typographic system might look on a T-shirt.

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