Not-a-word

I've been looking at fonts this morning. I've got two tattoos in mind that require them but I'm very picky. One I'm thinking about is a text tattoo, of 'there is a crack in everything/it's how the light gets in' (punctuation tbd). So I have the sample sentence set to 'there is a crack in everything'. Didn't take long at all before both 'crack' and 'everything' no longer look like words. Oddly enough, they just changed back again now that I'm typing them in a normal size and a font I'm used to.

The other is just '&', at a nice large size. That is even trickier for font selection, since designers tend to get fancy with the special characters. I'm not quite sure what fanciness level I want.