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Late to this as usual. But thought I have commented ages ago? huh? Well try 2 all these years later... Thoughts and observations. 1: There are multiple fonts being used in the series. Some are obviously just scribbles. Others are obviously some form of alphabet. 2: The problem comes from the lack of consistency and the variety. I think this is because sometimes different artists on the team just tossed in whatever. Likely combined with changinf or even differing ideas on what the fonts should be. 3: I recognized at least one of the fonts as being based off Galactic. But it just translated as gibberish. Another one looked like it was inspired by the text from Albedo. So someone on the staff may be paying homage to older sources. Would not surprise me if there was also nods to Tolkien and others. That would be hilarious if somewhere in Equestria the text from Barnyard Commandos was hidden. 4: I think there is a mistake in trying to horseshoe-horn in all of what twilight said ti be just that one page. It just does not fit no matter how you try to juggle it. It might be better to see if the txt matches any part of what she says rather than all of it. 4x: Though when I was puzzling over it way back one thought was what if the symbols are syllables? So Mare would be spelled with two letters. Ma-Re. I tried this approach but did not get any correllary really. 5: The fact they re-used text unfortunately indicates that the fonts may be just random letters. 6: None of this means you can not work out something viable. X: Why does this sort of thing interest us? Because A: Its fun and B: sometimes it gives some insight or little hidden clue. C: its a puzzle! It might not be a solvable puzzle but you never know till you try! Some years ago I sat down to try and figure out what a tablet read in an old sci-fi series. Turns out it was a bit from the Koran according to a friend of mine. Just a random page. I have sat down and puzzled out the text for the IDW Micronauts comic and they are actually saying stuff. Which was true in the original comic as well. Other times you just have to accept that its just random letters. sigh. I just love strange fonts. X2: Conclusions. This is a setting that partially runs on jokes and puns and little nods to things outside the setting. And that there may not be any real alphabet system. Some of this you just have to roll with as THERE. Combine that with multiple crew working on this and who knows. Surely some of the staff have commented before? What is there gives a fair basis to work out any number of combinations simple or complex. I lean strongly to simple if only because of the setting and its inhabitants. And because it fits the tone of the series. One thought I had early on after seeing the different fonts showing up was. What if there were different font styles for each pony type? Never seen anything to back it. But its an interesting possibility. Have fun, Since the alphabets are not exactly tied down you can pretty much assign them whatever and run with it.

Late to the parade. But some observations. The Spikes Dragon code is reversed handwriting. "Spikes Dragon Code". Good job spotting that! The scrip shown on the newspaper from the older show looks like a nod to Galactic Standard and reads JIQUAY or something like that. It is not 100%. That an some other examples in FIM also bear a slight resemblance to the script used in the comics Erma Felna: EDF and Albedo. I worked on one of the RPGs for that way back and was pretty familliar with it after a while and it shares some styles with GS. But GS seems to be the more likely source for the appearancces. So one strong connection to Galactic Standard, and one nebulous connection to Albedo. Personal guess is someone was a fan of Commander Keen, or read Albedo, or both. The legends book font looks like a cross between heirohlyph style and something else. IE: Some letters are whole words or names like in Egyptian and Mayan cultures and others. Hope that helps any future delvers into the mysteries of the series.