Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x15 - "Will You Take My Hand?"

[loghaD]

I think the old type face showed up in a couple scenes (or maybe it was just marketing)

I think the carvings on the D'k tahg, and the Torchbearer's EV suit used the classic typeface, but that isn't really noticeable on screen, only on closeup shots on display.

Maybe the old typeface has been retconned to be a classical style, or something fancy like cursive.

That is indeed the old Mandel script; it reads "There is honor in death" (in English).

However, they have also used the classic pIqaD script used by many Klingon-speakers, as well as several new fonts. These texts have used proper tlhIngan Hol (at least for the most part; there might be some exceptions, depending on which department did the text).

 

[137th Gebirg]

It would make sense that there is more than just one dialect and more than just one typeface for an entire culture. How many hundreds of thousands of fonts are out there for Greco-Roman/Germanic languages out there? And that's not including Cyrillic variants (mixtures of Greek and ancient Hebrew) and all the eastern languages that have their own unique scripts. It's good that they've finally decided to start fleshing out the culture in some way instead of making them the stereotypical monolithic Trek alien race.

 

[cooleddie74]

Even TOS used a different font and typeface for the Klingon script on the hulls of the D7 battle cruiser. It's clearly Klingon but not in the same font of text as we'd see in the movies and during the TNG-era series.

 

[fireproof78]

It would make sense that there is more than just one dialect and more than just one typeface for an entire culture. How many hundreds of thousands of fonts are out there for Greco-Roman/Germanic languages out there? And that's not including Cyrillic variants (mixtures of Greek and ancient Hebrew) and all the eastern languages that have their own unique scripts. It's good that they've finally decided to start fleshing out the culture in some way instead of making them the stereotypical monolithic Trek alien race.

Yes, it is very good, especially with the language and architecture designs.