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Ancient Autobot

Created by Jim Sorenson in the 1990s, based on symbols seen in the The Transformers episode "Cosmic Rust." This font has seen particularly common use in official media, including AllSpark Wars, Sorenson's own AllSpark Almanac books, on Banzai-Tron's Timelines toy, in Burger King's Transform Your Way promotion, as a part of the Around Cybertron news broadcast, on the cover to All Hail Megatron volume 3, in Rescue Bots, on Lockdown's HUD in Age of Extinction, both the 2005 and 2019 IDW comic universes, and extensively in the War for Cybertron Trilogy.

Decepticon Graffiti

Also created by Jim Sorenson in the '90s, based on the Cybertronian language graffitied on Earth landmarks by the Battlechargers in issue #23 of the Generation 1 Marvel comic. This font was also used in the AllSpark Wars game, and in the Revenge of the Fallen video game.

Maximal Cybertronix

Created by Mainframe Entertainment and used in the Beast Wars and Beast Machines cartoons for Maximal computer readouts.

Predacon Cybertronix

Also created by Mainframe for Predacon computer readouts.

Cyberglyphics

Created for the first live-action film, the hieroglyph-like "cyberglyphics" featured prominently in both Transformers and its immediate sequel as inscriptions on both the supernatural AllSpark artifact and the Transformers themselves. In addition to featuring prominently in marketing materials for both the first and second films, the font also saw use in IDW's first Transformers continuity to represent a near-extinct dialect commonly known as "Ancient Cybertronian."

High Moon font

Created by High Moon Studios for the War for Cybertron video game, also loosed based on the "Ancient Autobot" symbols from "Cosmic Rust." It appears--stylized in various different ways--in assorted places through the game series, in the Transformers: Devastation video game, in the Fall of Cybertron art book, and on the Torchbearer toys.

Fiction

Generation 1 continuity family

Marvel Comics continuity

Jazz explained that his real name was unpronounceable in English. Man of Iron During a nation-wide vandalism spree, Runamuck and Runabout sprayed Cybertronian graffiti across Earth monuments but eventually realized that humans couldn't understand their witty remarks. Decepticon Graffiti!

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

"He who is valiant, and pure of spirit, may find the Holy Grail in the castle of... aaaaargh?"

The first language used by the Transformers was likely the Quintesson language inherited from their creators, a hieroglyph-like series of inscriptions present upon the walls of their dimensional transporter room. Madman's Paradise The Plasma Energy Chamber's control panel used "Ancient Cybertronian", which Spike Witwicky did not recognize but Cerebros was able to read. The Rebirth, Part 1

The Thirteenth Legion, who'd fled Cybertron during a prior war, used a written language that Starscream would later identify as "Ancient Autobot". Cosmic Rust

The Ark's Teletraan I supercomputer occasionally displayed snippets of Cybertronian writing, including what would presumably be a modern Autobot language.More than Meets the Eye, Part 2

Beast Wars cartoon continuity

Beast Wars cartoon

Cybertronix is the primary written language on Cybertron by the era of the Maximals and Predacons, although Autobot and Decepticon artifacts from well before Pax Cybertronia also display Cybertronix writing. Nemesis Part 2