Alien Typography

By Joe Gillespie from DigitalWeb Magazine.

Beside the Concise Oxford Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus on my bookshelf is a much less-cited tome entitled The Klingon Dictionary. Although it does an admirable job of translating insults from English into the guttural Klingon tongue, it tells us very little about their typography. But that doesn't matter. The alien typography I am going to discuss is not from another world.Going back to the Oxford Dictionary for a moment, it defines the word "Typography" in two ways - "The Art of printing" and "The style or appearance of printed matter.