{"id":2248,"date":"2009-04-23T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2009-04-21T18:12:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T22:12:45","slug":"alien-alphabets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2248","title":{"rendered":"Alien Alphabets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mandalorian-139x150.png\" alt=\"Mandalorian\" title=\"Mandalorian\" width=\"139\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>io9 has collected a list of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5218119\/13-alien-languages-you-can-actually-read\">alien alphabets<\/A>, including Marain from Banks&#8217; <I>The Culture<\/I> books, Ancient from <I>Stargate<\/I>, and (of course) Klingon.  They&#8217;ve also got links to fonts based on all of them, so now you can write your own secret messages in Kryptonese.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of other alphabets and fonts they don&#8217;t mention in their article.  A few others are listed below:<\/p>\n<p>Tommy of Escondido has a great collection of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/TimesSquare\/4965\/b5font.html\">Babylon 5<\/A> <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/TimesSquare\/4965\/tfont.html\">Star Trek<\/A>, and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/TimesSquare\/4965\/sffont.html\">miscellaneous SF<\/A> fonts, including Minbari, Narn, Drazi, Bajoran, Kazon, Cardassian, Kanamit, Krell, and lots of others.<\/p>\n<p>The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.1001fonts.com\/font_details.html?font_id=794\">Lovecraft&#8217;s Diary<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.fontspace.com\/blambot\/miskatonic\">Miskatonic<\/A> fonts are perfect for Cthuloid doodlings.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.erikstormtrooper.com\/fonts.htm\">Erikstormtrooper<\/A> has several Star Wars fonts, as does <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.echostation.com\/features\/aurebesh.htm\">Echo Station<\/A> (sidebar to the right).<\/p>\n<p>Not SF, but Peter Klaasen has a collection of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thehutt.de\/tolkien\/fonts.html\">Tolkien fonts<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.timg.demon.co.uk\/an\/anas2.htm\">Alien Nation Appreciation Society<\/A> has the Tenctonese font available (near the bottom of the page).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>io9 has collected a list of alien alphabets, including Marain from Banks&#8217; The Culture books, Ancient from Stargate, and (of course) Klingon. They&#8217;ve also got links to fonts based on all of them, so now you can write your own secret messages in Kryptonese. There are lots of other alphabets and fonts they don&#8217;t mention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}