Professional advice from a graphic designer: Avoid these sections of font sites. If a logo is meant to look written or brushed, do it by hand. Any untrained eye can see this lazy shortcut. (Look for double letters like oo.) At best, they're cheap. At worst, they're orientalist.
If you really must use handwriting font, look for CONTEXTUAL ALTERNATES. This automatically replaces characters in common groupings like st, ing, and oo. Not all fonts have this feature and rarely are they free. Too bad. Pay for fonts.

More details here. https://www.typenetwork.com/news/article/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates
On a more artistic note, say your text is meant to convey a time period or location that doesn't use a Western alphabet. Just contorting the superficial appearance of that setting's writing is amateurish and insulting. Interrogate how it's meant to FEEL within that setting.
For example, say you're making a Viking game. You could do the old trick of just using Norse runes slightly modified into Western letters, but that's old and tired. Instead, ask "what did this text mean to the people who read and wrote?" Is it crude, magic, elegant, or cryptic?
As a personal example, say I designed a game set in the high court of the Inca empire. Not about warriors or farmers, but the elite class. The lazy solution is just googling "inca font" and picking something that looks exotic and foreign. (Never mind that Inca had no alphabet.)
For a logo, I'd use Gill Sans Ultra Black. A clean, geometric line with humanist curves, like the architecture of Machu Picchu. For headers, I'd use a dainty serif like Mrs Eaves.

Both are anachronistic, but the goal is conveying "monumental regality" to your modern audience.
Heh. This does make me imagine if Inca were commonly exotified and othered as to have their own free font sub-genre. The Inca recorded info in a system of knotted ropes called Quipu. These "free font" designers would probably make letters look made of string or something.
And just to close with an interesting very prominent display of logo design: Logos did a LOT of heavy lifting during the Disney+ announcements. Check out these samples. Ostensibly they're all super titles, but what's different about each? How do they feel? What do they promise?
And back to the original topic of spotting repeated letters. Spot the differences in the "E" in LOVE and THUNDER. The different sizes of "Oo" in GROOT. The crescent in MOON. The different brush details in the I and N of INVASION.
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