As I’m sure none of you noticed, I vanished off the face of the earth again for the last week or so. Clearly this is a common thing for me.

But this time it was legitimate.

With the exception of eating, sleeping, going to the bathroom and attending my sister’s college graduation party, I’ve spent the last 3 or 4 days working non-stop on a game for my final project in one of my classes I was in serious danger of failing.

I was supposed to have started months ago, but I ended up busy doing other things, one of them being Minecraft, of course.

Anyway, the game is basically done. There’s a strange bug I haven’t figured out yet, it doesn’t have music and I might add a high score chart, but other than that it’s basically done.

But don’t get excited. It’s just an asteroids clone.

If you’re interested, you’re welcome to check it out: http://freak-show.zxq.net/Exogorth.html.

One note, if you use the arrow keys, you won’t be able to rotate left while flying forward and shooting. This is not a coding error. Most keyboards are not designed to allow more than 3 or 4 simultaneous key presses. The way it works is that groups of keys all share a spot on the chip inside or something like that. So the keys that can be simultaneously pressed depend on how they’re split up.

If you use WAD to move, you can do all three together. However, you won’t be able to use WAD or pause the game while in full screen mode.

Again, this is not a coding error. Flash has a security thing that specifically does not allow use of the keyboard while in full screen mode. I have to specifically set it to allow keyboard interactivity while in full screen mode, but even then, full screen only works in the web browser and it only allows the keys Tab, Spacebar, Escape and the arrow keys to work.

Now that no one is still reading this I’ll just say… I don’t know. It’s a shitty game. But it’s the first complete game I’ve ever made and hopefully not the last. I hope people don’t hate it. And more importantly, I hope I pass my classes this quarter.

OH! I almost forgot. I named it Exogorth. I know you don’t know what that means. Remember that scene in the original Star Wars movies where the Millennium Falcon is escaping from the Empire so they fly into that asteroid field? Remember how they wind up inside that giant space slug? Well, that space slug is a species called an Exogorth.

So there you go.

darth-misium:

So far I’ve spent Star Wars day reading Darth Plagueis. I’m about half way through. I’m finding it sort of odd that the focus for much of what I’ve read so far has been on Palpatine. With the exception of the beginning of the book, it sort of feels like the book’s title should have been Darth Sidious.

I wasn’t thrilled to find that Plagueis had decided to do away with much of the violence in exchange for a more political and manipulative method, but the book is holding my interest regardless. The focus, as I said, for a while now, in this book, has been on Sidious’ political movements. I’ve never liked politics.

It looks like I’ll have to go further back in the line to find more interesting players in the Order of the Sith.

Well, I just finished reading the book. Just as I feared, the majority of the book focused on Palpatine. I’m not really sure why it’s called Darth Plagueis.

I’d have liked to have gotten more of an insight into what Plagueis had learned over his lifetime. His work with midi-chlorians seemed fascinating. I wish they’d have gone into it more.

Oh well. Perhaps I should make time to start reading more of the books about the ancient Sith. I’m just so tired of the Palpatine years.

darth-misium:

So far I’ve spent Star Wars day reading Darth Plagueis. I’m about half way through. I’m finding it sort of odd that the focus for much of what I’ve read so far has been on Palpatine. With the exception of the beginning of the book, it sort of feels like the book’s title should have been Darth Sidious.

I wasn’t thrilled to find that Plagueis had decided to do away with much of the violence in exchange for a more political and manipulative method, but the book is holding my interest regardless. The focus, as I said, for a while now, in this book, has been on Sidious’ political movements. I’ve never liked politics.

It looks like I’ll have to go further back in the line to find more interesting players in the Order of the Sith.

darth-misium:

I saw this keyboard a while back.

Then I stumbled across it again just now.

I spoke to myself outloud.

This is what I said:

“It’s 250 dollars, though… I don’t love Star Wars that much.”

Then I made a face, nodded and quietly added

“Yes I do.”

I just wish it was in black… Even with the custom graphics and the red lights, the silver just doesn’t feel very sithy… I know it’s for the best since most people probably play characters on both sides and spending $500 to get one for each side would be even more ridiculous.. But still.

I want this…

I just created a new blog last night. It is for cute things. Mostly kittens. Because kittens are the best!

There’s also occasionally other animals, bunnies, the occasional bat, seals, etc.

However, don’t expect to see dogs. I have nothing against dogs, but I just don’t care for them, personally. So it’s unlikely I’ll ever really post any there.

For those keeping track, the blogs I have now are as follows:

Main blog (this one): http://Lucif-Hare.tumblr.com

Star Wars blog: http://Darth-Misium.tumblr.com

Cute stuff blog: http://Satan-Rabbit.tumblr.com

Porn blog: http://Lucif-Hard.tumblr.com

I’m reblogging these again because the other post, especially, has been completely ignored by tumblr while this post has over 350 notes already, the other one has like 10. Also, most people are reblogging them without all the text below and without the font downloads. Which is a shame because I spent a lot of time typing it and I think people are really missing out to not have it all.

lucif-hare:

[EDIT]This post has been getting reblogged a ton lately, but without any of the text, which is a shame because I spent a lot of time typing it. Even more of a shame, the second post has been completely ignored. So because I took so much time making these charts and typing this text, I think I should add a link here to the other post, even though none of you will even see it.

Post 2 with the last 8 languages: http://lucif-hare.tumblr.com/post/17141980690/for-people-who-dont-like-to-scroll-to-find[/EDIT]

For people who don’t like to scroll to find valuables, here is a link to download all of the Star Wars fonts I’ve found: http://freak-show.zxq.net/Star%20Wars%20Fonts.zip (Note: This is a zip file. You will need to unzip it.)

To install a font:
In Windows 7, open the font and there should be a button at the top that says “Install.” Click that and you’re done.
In other versions of Windows, copy and paste ONLY the font file into the font folder on your computer (It should be located in something like C:/Windows/Fonts) 

About these charts:

For whatever reason, I have a fascination with in-world Star Wars languages. I’ve spent countless hours searching the internet for different languages, namely for the written alphabets. What I’ve found is that, even for the languages that exist, it’s extremely hard to find charts or fonts for the written languages. Aurebesh is obviously easy to find, but the others, not so much.

Because it’s so hard to find charts, I decided to make my own. It took far longer than I expected it to, but I’m finally done.

I’ve managed to find 16 languages. I’ll post the first 8 (in alphabetical order) in this post and the last 8 in another post.

I’ve also gathered together all the Star Wars fonts I’ve found, including the fonts for each of the alphabets above (except for Geonosian and the untitled Sith writing, which will be in the next post). A link to a zip folder with all of the languages can be found above. I should note that there are a lot of other Star Wars fonts out there, I was only looking for fonts for in-world languages. I just happened to have picked up some other English ones along the way.

About the languages:

Atrisian:
Atrisian is a language that comes from the planet Atrisia. Behind the scenes, it is an alphabet that was used in Star Wars games several times before Aurebesh was finalized. This font was created by Erikstormtrooper, who mapped the 12 characters seen in the games to the 12 most common letters in the English alphabet. He made up the rest of the letters. He named the font Dark Katarn after the game Star Wars: Dark Forces and the main character from the game, Kyle Katarn. There is much more information about where this alphabet comes from here. The language, however is officially called Atrisian, according to Wookieepedia.

Aurebesh:
Aurebesh is the language of the Star Wars universe. If you’re looking at an official Star Wars item from like the last 10 years, chances are there is Aurebesh printed on it somewhere. Aurebesh is an alphabet that was based on low-quality screen shots of monitor screens from the original Star Wars movies. At some point, someone stumbled across the original font used for those screens in the archives and revealed them to the world. It turns out the original letters differ a bit from Aurebesh, but it’s still pretty close. A font that more accurately matches the original screens (which is not included in my .zip above) and more information about the original Aurebesh can be found here. In-world, Galactic Basic is the language spoken by most of the galaxy. Galactic basic is just English (or whatever the native language is of the viewer). The written form of Galactic Basic is Aurebesh (Aurebesh means alphabet. Aure is the name of the letter A in Galactic Basic and Besh is the name of the letter B in Galactic Basic).

One note about the numbers in Aurebesh: Most Aurebesh fonts use the number design used in the above chart, with vertical lines and dots. However, there is only one instance that I’ve ever seen in an official source where this number design has been used (It was on a close up shot of credit ingots from the Star Wars: Clone Wars CG animated series) Everywhere else, a slightly modified version of the English numbers is used. I’m not sure why this is, and I also haven’t come across a font that has that same number design. This image shows the two number designs. The “alien” numbers on top and the “Arabic” numerals normally seen in official Star Wars items on bottom.

Contained in the font .zip download are several different Aurebesh fonts made by various different people (Credits for who made what are inside). Among the fonts is a narrow version and a version that looks hand-written.

Common Sith:
There are 6 different versions of Darth Vader’s chest box, each uses different characters from this language. These 6 boxes are the only instances I’ve ever seen that use this language. For some reason, it was decided that these letters should be the Common Sith language. There is a very detailed explanation of where this alphabet came from here.

I’ve thought about it quite a bit and this just doesn’t seem at all likely or logical to me. Darth Vader was the last sith in a very long line of sith existence (Yes, I know the sith came back after Palpatine died, but for at least a short time, the sith stopped existing) It seems unlikely that only the very last sith to exist would have used this language and not the thousands who came before him. Aside from that, Palpatine and Vader were the only Sith left in the universe. The only reason you write in a particular language rather than another is so that a particular person or group of persons can read it. You choose the language most easily read by the people whom you want to be reading it. If there’s only one other person in the galaxy who knows how to read this language, it doesn’t seem logical at all to bother using that language. With Aurebesh being the primary language in the galaxy, it stands to reason that Vader would have used that. Or at the very least a more common alphabet than one only the two of them knew how to read. Which brings me to my next point. It could be understandable if the text was used to hide valuable information that Vader wanted only sith to know. But it’s his fucking chest box. It’s a medical component, a part of his life-support system. For one, you don’t put secret information on your chest, even if it isn’t legible to anyone. And for another, you don’t label medical components with secret code. If you have a medical emergency, you want your doctor to be able to read what the the fuck your life-support system says. Which brings me to another point. It’s a medical device. Vader probably didn’t make it himself (Maybe he built a newer version later on, but not the original one) why would the medical engineers that made this device have labeled shit in the sith alphabet? How would they have even known the sith alphabet? It’s unlikely that they would have.

For all of these reasons, it seems really unlikely and illogical to me that the text on Vader’s chest box would be a sith alphabet. If it was a sith alphabet, it’d have been seen all over the place, written by all the countless other sith that existed before Vader. But it hasn’t appeared anywhere else.

I maintain that this font is not a sith alphabet. But it is canon at this point, so there’s not much I can do about it.

Having said all of this, the real reason I don’t like this font are two fold: 1.) Several of the characters are very similar and when writing it on paper, unless you write the letters perfectly (and my handwriting sucks), it can be difficult to determine which letter you’ve written (I know, I’ve already done this.) 2.) The biggest thing about this alphabet that bothers me is that it is not original. The letters in this alphabet are literally just Hebrew letters. And that bothers me. I like my fictional alphabets to be fictional. This is the main reason I reject this alphabet. I love the sith and I want an original, unique language to be paired up with them. That’s why I’m thrilled about this new unidentified Sith alphabet that you’ll see in my next post.

Droid:
I don’t really know where this font comes from, I can’t seem to find any information on it except the brief blurb about it next to the font download on one particular site. It uses symbols very similar (and sometimes the same as) the Trade Federation alphabet, but it isn’t exactly the same.

The blurb from this website says this:

The Droid font comes from the Star Warsr movie “The Phantom Menace”r and the book StarWars Episode 1 Visual Dictionary. The info for this font comes from Scott Watson. This is the Galactic Basic numerals used to identify Droids. The font is canon 0 thru 9 and A thru J. The rest of the font was invented by Mike, if more info is forthcoming he will update the font.

Ewokese:
Aside from having a spoken language that you can learn (Click the link above to view the list of words from the language), Ewokese also has this glyph writing system. The symbols represent words and ideas and are not used to spell words like normal letters are. The symbols are also written vertically, not horizontally.

Futhark:
Futhark is the formal written language used on Naboo.It was not often used because it was found hard to read by common folk, according to Wookieepedia. I’m not sure why, but I’ve never cared for Naboo and this happens to be my least favorite of the Star Wars alphabets.

Futhork:
Futhork is the informal version of Naboo’s written language. I.. guess there isn’t much more to say about it than that…

Geonosian:
Geonosian is a language that was created by Philip Metschan, along with two other alphabets, for George Lucas. Philip incorporated this alphabet in several of the Death Star technical readouts in Episode 2. As far as I know, this alphabet has not been released as a font publicly. For the chart above, I photoshopped the characters out of the image (which you can see by clicking the “Geonosian” link above) from Philip’s portfolio (which you can find by clicking his name above). Because I am not a typographer and do not have the means to make my own fonts, this font is not in the .zip folder. It’s a shame because I think this font looks pretty cool.

And that wraps up the first of this two part Star Wars/language nerdgasm of posts I’m making.

…Wow, I’m such a nerd…

darth-misium:

retrostarwars:

Ralph McQuarrie (with sketchbook in hand) walks past his matte painting of the Echo Base interior in this cameo from The Empire Strikes Back

Rest in peace, Ralph =(

From CNN.com:

Ralph McQuarrie, the man credited with bringing director George Lucas’ vision for “Star Wars” to the big screen, has died at the age of 82.

McQuarrie’s conceptual designs were the basis for some of the trilogy’s iconic characters such as Darth Vader, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO.

A statement on McQuarrie’s official website, posted after his death Saturday, said his influence on design will be felt forever.

“There’s no doubt in our hearts that centuries from now amazing spaceships will soar, future cities will rise and someone, somewhere will say… that looks like something Ralph McQuarrie painted,” it read.

Lucas said he was saddened by McQuarrie’s passing, calling him a visionary artist and a humble man.

“Ralph McQuarrie was the first person I hired to help me envision Star Wars,” Lucas said. “His genial contribution, in the form of unequaled production paintings, propelled and inspired all of the cast and crew of the original Star Wars trilogy.

“When words could not convey my ideas, I could always point to one of Ralph’s fabulous illustrations and say, ‘Do it like this.’”

McQuarrie also helped to create concept designs for the original Battlestar Galactica TV show, along with the movies “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

McQuarrie’s conceptual work on the 1985 film, “Cocoon,” won him the Academy Award for Visual Effects.

Hey, Star Wars Fans!

I have a Star Wars blog you should be following! (Mostly because I need to feel special)

It’s primarily Sith/Empire/Dark Side focused because that’s what I’m most into.

So follow it and reblog stuff from it and love it and stuff!

http://Darth-Misium.tumblr.com

Not with my homework, unfortunately…

But with my porn blog =D Which is way cooler.

I was slowly and methodically going through all of my liked posts, reblogging all the porn in the list. It took forever, I have over 3500 liked posts and tumblr has those fucking post limits, but I just finally finished.

For those of you who didn’t know, I started a porn blog. I intend to use it to reblog the porn I like on my dash instead of just hitting the like button.

For those that want to follow it, the url is http://Lucif-Hard.tumblr.com (creative, I know).

BUT that’s not all!

I also started a Star Wars blog. There’s nothing really there yet because I was focusing on getting the porn one taken care of, but I’m planning to start posting more actively on it soon (Not really sure what exactly I’ll post there yet, but there’s very likely to be a strong Sith/dark side/empire lean to the blog, as you could all have guessed.) This will likely have to wait until I’ve caught up on my homework, though. I’m in a dangerous position right now, my grades are low and I have a final project I have to have done and I haven’t started it yet..

Anyway, the Star Wars blog is here: http://Darth-Misium.tumblr.com

[EDIT]This post has been getting reblogged a ton lately, but without any of the text, which is a shame because I spent a lot of time typing it. Even more of a shame, the second post has been completely ignored. So because I took so much time making these charts and typing this text, I think I should add a link here to the other post, even though none of you will even see it.

Post 1 with the first 8 languages: http://lucif-hare.tumblr.com/post/17133571192/edit-this-post-has-been-getting-reblogged-a-ton[/EDIT]

For people who don’t like to scroll to find valuables, here is a link to download all of the Star Wars fonts I’ve found: http://freak-show.zxq.net/Star%20Wars%20Fonts.zip (Note: This is a zip file. You will need to unzip it.)

To install a font:
In Windows 7, open the font and there should be a button at the top that says “Install.” Click that and you’re done.
In other versions of Windows, copy and paste ONLY the font file into the font folder on your computer (It should be located in something like C:/Windows/Fonts) 

About these charts:

For whatever reason, I have a fascination with in-world Star Wars languages. I’ve spent countless hours searching the internet for different languages, namely for the written alphabets. What I’ve found is that, even for the languages that exist, it’s extremely hard to find charts or fonts for the written languages. Aurebesh is obviously easy to find, but the others, not so much.

Because it’s so hard to find charts, I decided to make my own. It took far longer than I expected it to, but I’m finally done.

I’ve managed to find 16 languages. I already posted the first 8 (in alphabetical order) in the last post, now it’s time for the last 8.

I’ve also gathered together all the Star Wars fonts I’ve found, including the fonts for each of the alphabets above (except for Geonosian, which was in the first post, and the untitled Sith writing). A link to a zip folder with all of the languages can be found above. I should note that there are a lot of other Star Wars fonts out there, I was only looking for fonts for in-world languages. I just happened to have picked up some other English ones along the way.

About the languages:

Mando’a:
Mando’a is one of the most in-depth spoken languages that the Star Wars universe has (Click the Mando’a link above to see the entire language as it currently exists). Aside from the spoken language, there is also this written language. I’ve made the letters extra large to show off the tiny details in the letters (It’s probably good to note that the font seems to have had some errors with some of the letters, causing some of the shapes to look a little different (Specifically numbers 3 and 7). I’m not sure if that’s an issue with the way the font was designed or with Flash, the program I used to create these charts.) Because the characters have a lot of small nuances that relate more to line thickness than to the strokes, I haven’t yet figured out the best way to write this alphabet by hand. For instance, A and P would be hard to distinguish between if written by hand and E, J and I would also be hard to distinguish between.

Massassi:
This was a very difficult font to find. I couldn’t find any instance of this written language anywhere on the internet except for the one single page that had this font for download (http://www.massassi.nl, the makers of the font). For some reason, the font displays strangely in Flash (looking closely, you can see white lines where the strokes of each character overlap). When I enlarged the font much larger, those white lines disappeared, but I had already made them pretty large. You’ll just have to try to ignore them, I guess…

Anyway, according to Wookieepedia, the Massassi glyphs did not always represent a single letter.

When it comes to Massassi and things related to sith purebloods, there are a lot of similarities intentionally made to ancient Egypt (which is awesome, considering I’ve always had an intense fascination with ancient Egypt).

Nal-Huttese:
Nal-Huttese is another large spoken language that you can learn (Click the Nal-Huttese link to view the list of words). As for the written alphabet, Huttese comes in two flavors. Nal-Huttese is the main alphabet used to write Huttese. The other is Trade Huttese (which we’ll get to below).

Nal-Huttese is another alphabet that I think would be difficult to write by hand. It’s obviously a very calligraphic alphabet. It does look cool, but due to how difficult it’d be to write this alphabet in a recognizable way, it’s not one of my priorities to learn this alphabet, though I still plan to get to it eventually.

Teresian:
Teresian is a written language based in glyphs. According to Tommy, the creator of this font, the characters were taken from the walls of an ancient sith temple called the Great Temple (also known as Massassi Temple) on Yavin 4, where the rebel forces made their base in A New Hope. Tommy also says that the Star Wars comic books call this glyph language Teresian. I have no idea what Teresian is or what species it is associated with, a Wookieepedia search and a Google search turn up zero results. Tommy also didn’t say which comic it’s from, so I couldn’t even attempt to look it up. That said, this temple was constructed by Massassi to worship the sith lord Naga Sadow, which means that if all of the above information is true, then this glyph set is another Massassi glyph language. I don’t know if that means that this is just more letters from the Massassi written language or if they had two different glyph languages or what…

The font itself is named SWyavin4. SW obviously stands for Star Wars and Yavin 4 is the location of this temple where the glyphs were found. Aside from all of this, these glyphs do not correspond to letters of an alphabet which means they are logographic and represent words and ideas instead.

Trade Federation:
A note from the creator of this font:

I discovered these characters on the official Star Wars website. You can find them on their new feature, the Droid Viewer. All characters are cannon as far as I could decipher them. They are pretty small. I was not able to find an X yet, but I will update the file as soon as possible.
I called it the Trade Federation Font, cause this interactive feature is called “Federation Droid Viewer”. I also noticed, that there are several characters that are the same as in the “Droids” font.

Please note that the font is missing the letter X and numbers 0, 7, 8 and 9. To create the chart above, I cut up other letters to create the missing characters using a complete chart found on Wookieepedia. I have no idea why this font hasn’t been updated to fill in the missing letters. Also note that I modified letters R, Y and Z to match the chart on Wookieepedia. The actual font for those 3 letters looks slightly different.

Trade Huttese:
Trade Huttese is the second alphabet used to write Huttese. It is used primarily for trade with people from off world.

from a source sent by Mike Dolan from Star Wars Insider Magazine #35, Winter 1997. Article: “Making Special Edition Collectibles - A Talk with Designer Eric Larson”, pages 63-67. The single picture appears on page 65.
Relevant quotes: “I created some boxes for Pizza Hut…I then created “Jabba’s Alphabet.” Years ago at a World con, I got to work for Howard Kazanjian, the producer of Jedi and Raiders. We had to put the frozen Han Solo and speeder bike together for the exhibit, and while doing so I noticed the writing on the props. I asked Howard what it was and he told me it was Hebrew, so when I designed Jabba’s alphabet I used a modern Hebrew font as a model.” — from Designer Eric Larson.
Mike Dolan and I feel than since nothing is made for StarWars without the OK of Lucas & Co., this is as canon as Trade Huttese will get.

Unidentified Sith writing:
NOTE: It’s very important to know that only the letters in black are real. All red letters were made up by me. I am nobody, I have no authority to make up Star Wars alphabet letters, so don’t take any of the red letters as official.

There is a book coming out this Friday, Feb. 10th, 2012 called Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side. While searching for Star Wars languages, I somehow stumbled across the page linked above in the Unidentified Sith writing title. It shows a picture from this book of a partially translated ancient sith ritual using a completely new, never-before-seen (at least as far as I know), sith alphabet. This writing language currently does not have a name.

This alphabet has me very excited. It doesn’t look anything like any real world alphabet I’ve ever seen (Look at my previous post at the Common Sith info to see how important that is to me, haha). I really like the way this alphabet looks and how it works. Something about it really reminds me of demonic sigils, which I think is extremely fitting for an written alphabet for ancient sith. I’m desperately hoping the book contains the full alphabet somewhere because I really love this alphabet and there are MAJOR holes in it currently (like the letter E, for instance. The most common letter in the English language).

It is for this alphabet, more than anything, that I really badly want this book. But if that wasn’t enough, the book is filled with tons of information about the sith and their history. But it gets better still, the book comes inside of a sith holocron that opens up to reveal the book and the other items it comes with. But wait, you’re asking me, it comes with other items, too?! Yes! It does! It comes with a red lightsaber crystal! And a scrap of an ancient sith burial shroud! And an empire propaganda poster! And a nightsister talisman! And a battle map of the Great Galactic War! And a diagram detailing Palpatine’s political strategies during the Clone Wars!

Anyway, the way this alphabet works is that all vowels are diacritics (a small mark added in or around another letter) that are placed at the top line or just under the hook of the previous consonant (if there is one and if it has a hook on top). You can see an example of this in the bottom right corner of the chart.

This is definitely my favorite alphabet. It really sucks that it’s so incomplete. I seriously hope it is filled out in the book or that someone official comes along and finalizes it.

Another thing to note is that in the picture from the book that I took these letters from, the letters are translated into the sith language using the roman alphabet (Currently there are only a very small number of words in the sith spoken language). A couple of the sith words are further translated into english.

Veknoid:

NOTE: This font was previously named Boonta after the festival it is seen in, but we renamed it Veknoid because Mike Dolan found out that the Boonta festival & Pod races seem to be inspired by the Veknoid aliens. The Veknoid [Boonta] symbols are visible on the Racing Pod of Teemto Pagalies (A furry, Bulldog-faced being) in the Incredible Cross-Sections Book. Teemto has been identified as a Veknoid, another species famous for having many members who are Podracers.

This font only has letters A-J, which makes it rather useless. It looks pretty cool, though.

[EDIT]This post has been getting reblogged a ton lately, but without any of the text, which is a shame because I spent a lot of time typing it. Even more of a shame, the second post has been completely ignored. So because I took so much time making these charts and typing this text, I think I should add a link here to the other post, even though none of you will even see it.

Post 2 with the last 8 languages: http://lucif-hare.tumblr.com/post/17141980690/for-people-who-dont-like-to-scroll-to-find[/EDIT]

For people who don’t like to scroll to find valuables, here is a link to download all of the Star Wars fonts I’ve found: http://freak-show.zxq.net/Star%20Wars%20Fonts.zip (Note: This is a zip file. You will need to unzip it.)

To install a font:
In Windows 7, open the font and there should be a button at the top that says “Install.” Click that and you’re done.
In other versions of Windows, copy and paste ONLY the font file into the font folder on your computer (It should be located in something like C:/Windows/Fonts) 

About these charts:

For whatever reason, I have a fascination with in-world Star Wars languages. I’ve spent countless hours searching the internet for different languages, namely for the written alphabets. What I’ve found is that, even for the languages that exist, it’s extremely hard to find charts or fonts for the written languages. Aurebesh is obviously easy to find, but the others, not so much.

Because it’s so hard to find charts, I decided to make my own. It took far longer than I expected it to, but I’m finally done.

I’ve managed to find 16 languages. I’ll post the first 8 (in alphabetical order) in this post and the last 8 in another post.

I’ve also gathered together all the Star Wars fonts I’ve found, including the fonts for each of the alphabets above (except for Geonosian and the untitled Sith writing, which will be in the next post). A link to a zip folder with all of the languages can be found above. I should note that there are a lot of other Star Wars fonts out there, I was only looking for fonts for in-world languages. I just happened to have picked up some other English ones along the way.

About the languages:

Atrisian:
Atrisian is a language that comes from the planet Atrisia. Behind the scenes, it is an alphabet that was used in Star Wars games several times before Aurebesh was finalized. This font was created by Erikstormtrooper, who mapped the 12 characters seen in the games to the 12 most common letters in the English alphabet. He made up the rest of the letters. He named the font Dark Katarn after the game Star Wars: Dark Forces and the main character from the game, Kyle Katarn. There is much more information about where this alphabet comes from here. The language, however is officially called Atrisian, according to Wookieepedia.

Aurebesh:
Aurebesh is the language of the Star Wars universe. If you’re looking at an official Star Wars item from like the last 10 years, chances are there is Aurebesh printed on it somewhere. Aurebesh is an alphabet that was based on low-quality screen shots of monitor screens from the original Star Wars movies. At some point, someone stumbled across the original font used for those screens in the archives and revealed them to the world. It turns out the original letters differ a bit from Aurebesh, but it’s still pretty close. A font that more accurately matches the original screens (which is not included in my .zip above) and more information about the original Aurebesh can be found here. In-world, Galactic Basic is the language spoken by most of the galaxy. Galactic basic is just English (or whatever the native language is of the viewer). The written form of Galactic Basic is Aurebesh (Aurebesh means alphabet. Aure is the name of the letter A in Galactic Basic and Besh is the name of the letter B in Galactic Basic).

One note about the numbers in Aurebesh: Most Aurebesh fonts use the number design used in the above chart, with vertical lines and dots. However, there is only one instance that I’ve ever seen in an official source where this number design has been used (It was on a close up shot of credit ingots from the Star Wars: Clone Wars CG animated series) Everywhere else, a slightly modified version of the English numbers is used. I’m not sure why this is, and I also haven’t come across a font that has that same number design. This image shows the two number designs. The “alien” numbers on top and the “Arabic” numerals normally seen in official Star Wars items on bottom.

Contained in the font .zip download are several different Aurebesh fonts made by various different people (Credits for who made what are inside). Among the fonts is a narrow version and a version that looks hand-written.

Common Sith:
There are 6 different versions of Darth Vader’s chest box, each uses different characters from this language. These 6 boxes are the only instances I’ve ever seen that use this language. For some reason, it was decided that these letters should be the Common Sith language. There is a very detailed explanation of where this alphabet came from here.

I’ve thought about it quite a bit and this just doesn’t seem at all likely or logical to me. Darth Vader was the last sith in a very long line of sith existence (Yes, I know the sith came back after Palpatine died, but for at least a short time, the sith stopped existing) It seems unlikely that only the very last sith to exist would have used this language and not the thousands who came before him. Aside from that, Palpatine and Vader were the only Sith left in the universe. The only reason you write in a particular language rather than another is so that a particular person or group of persons can read it. You choose the language most easily read by the people whom you want to be reading it. If there’s only one other person in the galaxy who knows how to read this language, it doesn’t seem logical at all to bother using that language. With Aurebesh being the primary language in the galaxy, it stands to reason that Vader would have used that. Or at the very least a more common alphabet than one only the two of them knew how to read. Which brings me to my next point. It could be understandable if the text was used to hide valuable information that Vader wanted only sith to know. But it’s his fucking chest box. It’s a medical component, a part of his life-support system. For one, you don’t put secret information on your chest, even if it isn’t legible to anyone. And for another, you don’t label medical components with secret code. If you have a medical emergency, you want your doctor to be able to read what the the fuck your life-support system says. Which brings me to another point. It’s a medical device. Vader probably didn’t make it himself (Maybe he built a newer version later on, but not the original one) why would the medical engineers that made this device have labeled shit in the sith alphabet? How would they have even known the sith alphabet? It’s unlikely that they would have.

For all of these reasons, it seems really unlikely and illogical to me that the text on Vader’s chest box would be a sith alphabet. If it was a sith alphabet, it’d have been seen all over the place, written by all the countless other sith that existed before Vader. But it hasn’t appeared anywhere else.

I maintain that this font is not a sith alphabet. But it is canon at this point, so there’s not much I can do about it.

Having said all of this, the real reason I don’t like this font are two fold: 1.) Several of the characters are very similar and when writing it on paper, unless you write the letters perfectly (and my handwriting sucks), it can be difficult to determine which letter you’ve written (I know, I’ve already done this.) 2.) The biggest thing about this alphabet that bothers me is that it is not original. The letters in this alphabet are literally just Hebrew letters. And that bothers me. I like my fictional alphabets to be fictional. This is the main reason I reject this alphabet. I love the sith and I want an original, unique language to be paired up with them. That’s why I’m thrilled about this new unidentified Sith alphabet that you’ll see in my next post.

Droid:
I don’t really know where this font comes from, I can’t seem to find any information on it except the brief blurb about it next to the font download on one particular site. It uses symbols very similar (and sometimes the same as) the Trade Federation alphabet, but it isn’t exactly the same.

The blurb from this website says this:

The Droid font comes from the Star Warsr movie “The Phantom Menace”r and the book StarWars Episode 1 Visual Dictionary. The info for this font comes from Scott Watson. This is the Galactic Basic numerals used to identify Droids. The font is canon 0 thru 9 and A thru J. The rest of the font was invented by Mike, if more info is forthcoming he will update the font.

Ewokese:
Aside from having a spoken language that you can learn (Click the link above to view the list of words from the language), Ewokese also has this glyph writing system. The symbols represent words and ideas and are not used to spell words like normal letters are. The symbols are also written vertically, not horizontally.

Futhark:
Futhark is the formal written language used on Naboo.It was not often used because it was found hard to read by common folk, according to Wookieepedia. I’m not sure why, but I’ve never cared for Naboo and this happens to be my least favorite of the Star Wars alphabets.

Futhork:
Futhork is the informal version of Naboo’s written language. I.. guess there isn’t much more to say about it than that…

Geonosian:
Geonosian is a language that was created by Philip Metschan, along with two other alphabets, for George Lucas. Philip incorporated this alphabet in several of the Death Star technical readouts in Episode 2. As far as I know, this alphabet has not been released as a font publicly. For the chart above, I photoshopped the characters out of the image (which you can see by clicking the “Geonosian” link above) from Philip’s portfolio (which you can find by clicking his name above). Because I am not a typographer and do not have the means to make my own fonts, this font is not in the .zip folder. It’s a shame because I think this font looks pretty cool.

And that wraps up the first of this two part Star Wars/language nerdgasm of posts I’m making.

…Wow, I’m such a nerd…

SOMEONE BUY THIS FOR ME, I NEED IT BECAUSE OF REASONS!

It comes with a red lightsaber crystal!

And a scrap of a sith burial shroud!

And it comes inside a sith holocron!

And it has tons of information about sith!

Including a sith alphabet I’ve never seen before but that looks fucking awesome!

I want this so much!

Fucking statistics.

This is how I spend my statistics class.

I write stuff in Galactic Basic and pass it to my classmates who don’t know Galactic Basic. Then I have to bring up a chart on my phone so they can translate.

I kept nagging one of my classmates to learn it and he finally did, haha.

In the second picture, the bottom half of the page was what was written first. You probably can’t tell which is which, but in the second page, stuff written in pen was by me, stuff written in pencil was written by my classmate, Max. The stuff in blue pen about me smelling funny was written by another classmate, Tom, who can’t read Galactic Basic.

I need to learn Sith, Massassi, Droid and the other languages soon..

[EDIT]Ignore my typo in “hamster”..[/EDIT]