Silver Palace script and font: every sign translated

The Silvernia script is the lettering on almost every sign, poster and newspaper in Silver Palace. It looks like runes crossed with Art Nouveau shop lettering, and for months nobody could read a word of it. Then, in May 2025, a member of the Silver Palace Discord who goes by Marloncha went through the Golden Age of Detectives trailer and the Gameplay Showcase frame by frame and cracked it.

The answer was simpler than the letters suggest. The script is a letter-for-letter substitution of the English alphabet. Every glyph stands for one Latin letter, capitals and lowercase both, and the words underneath are plain English, with the odd advert in Spanish, Italian or French. Once the key exists, the city becomes readable, and it turns out to have a lot to say.

Everything on this page is Marloncha's work unless it says otherwise. That covers the key, the readings and the annotated frames, each of them an official frame with his translation in red. His first public write-up is on r/SilverPalaceGame. This page checks each reading against his key and against the frame, and marks the places where he marked a guess. It then ties each find to what the rest of this site already knows about Silvernia. Where a line is gibberish, the page says so, and some of it is.

On this page: how the script works · the fairy-tale journal · Monster Boss · the Wolf King's Genealogy · the newspapers · U.M.I. · the Morgue Street map · the Officer's Handbook · two promotional pages · The Tapestry of Time · smaller finds · what stays unread · the font · credits

How the Silvernia script works

The key took Marloncha about ten days. By 16 May 2025 he had every capital and all but four lowercase letters. He pointed out that the missing four, b, j, k and q, are among the least used letters in English, so a gap could usually be filled from the rest of the word. The j turned up on 19 May, in a newspaper at 0:49 of the Gameplay Showcase. The q and the k came the same morning. The last one, a lowercase b, was hiding in a French advert at 7:47, and on 25 May the alphabet was complete.

The finished key, with the Latin letters beside their Silvernia forms, and a pangram set in the script. Key and font by Marloncha.

Three things about the script are worth knowing before you try reading a sign yourself.

It borrows shapes from other letters. Capital O is drawn like a Greek psi, N like a Cyrillic Є, S like a figure eight, X like a pi and C like a 9. This is why the script looks alien rather than decorative. Your eye keeps finding real letters in it, and they are the wrong ones.

Some letters have more than one form. The footage writes B, F, G, J, N, R, T, V, W and Z in variant shapes, and lowercase a, r and w too, plus a separate set of lowercase numerals. Marloncha built those into his font as alternates rather than pretend the city is consistent.

It is not only English. The adverts on the shop fronts switch to Spanish, Italian and French in the same letters. That matches the game's own description of the city, which is the first thing the key unlocked.

The game's own pitch, hidden on a wall

The best proof that the key works is a block of text at 6:28 of the Gameplay Showcase. Decoded, it is the studio describing its own game. Here is Marloncha's reading, unedited:

This project is a next-era D action ARPG set in the 19th century, featuring fairing fairy tales and gothic, and with the theme of detective reasoning. The urban design combines the neoclassical and art nouveau styles of th century England, France and Spain to present a bright and bustling cityscape. The protagonist is a detective in the Silver City, investigating the bizarre "Fairy Tale Incident", breaking through the disguise of mysticism in the case, and digging into the real causes behind it.

The gaps are in the source, not the reading. "D action" has lost the number in front of it, the second "th century" has lost its "19", and "fairing fairy tales" is a doubled word in the original. The same paragraph appears again just above it in a cursive hand. Marloncha searched more than 2,000 calligraphy fonts for that one without finding a match, and suspected it was drawn for the game.

The project description as it sits on the wall, undecoded. Official Gameplay Showcase footage.

This is placeholder copy, a pitch document pasted onto a wall as set dressing. It is also the most direct statement of the premise anywhere in the footage, and four phrases in it are worth your attention.

• "The Silver City." The game calls its city Silvernia. The pitch calls it the Silver City, which is what the Chinese title, 白银之城, literally says.
• "The Fairy Tale Incident." A case name that has not appeared anywhere else. The journal in the next section reads like the planning for it, and the dark fairy-tale characters are its cast.
• "Breaking through the disguise of mysticism... the real causes behind it." This is the thesis of the whole game in one line. Every monster so far has had a material cause. The werewolves are Metal-Blooded, mutated by Silverium rather than cursed, and the question of whether Silverium is itself alive is framed as chemistry, not magic.
• "England, France and Spain." It names the three architectural sources outright, which explains the Spanish and French adverts. The districts guide shows how that mix plays out street by street.

The fairy-tale journal: six tales and two siblings

The most important script in any footage so far is not on a sign. It is in a journal on a desk, being written with a quill by a gloved hand, in a later piece of in-development footage. Marloncha's reading covers three pieces of paper.

A loose sheet on the left carries a numbered list:

0. Little Mermaid
1. Cinderella
2. Sleeping Beauty
3. Little Red Riding Hood
4. Pinocchio
5. Rapunzel

A torn note above it is only partly legible: "Points of Concern. Ensure Cinderella... causing a butterfly effect. Exce... Hood from coming to pass. Sleeping Beauty... Record but she will inherit lead..."

The right-hand page of the journal reads: "This is a story of fairy tales. Of two siblings... Once upon a time, there was a detective... Now... how to [describe the?] detective. Young, sharp... enemy, yet at heart a pursuer of truth. Inexperienced."

The fairy-tale journal. Blue marks the letters Marloncha could not confirm. Official in-development footage, annotation by Marloncha.

A caution before the reading. The words in blue in his annotation are his best fit for letters he could not confirm. That includes parts of "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Riding Hood", and all of "describe the". The left-hand page of the journal is almost entirely unreadable, and what is written out under the frame is a letter-by-letter transcription, not a translation.

Even with that caution, three things on this desk line up with the story as it has been played.

The narration matches. "Once upon a time, there was a detective" is the line the beta story opens on, and "two siblings" are the two celebrated detectives aboard the Evermore, one of whom is lost when the airship falls. The story recap walks through that prologue, and the main character guide covers who the surviving sibling is. The journal is the story's own frame, a book being written about the detective while the detective is living it.

The list reads as casting, not a bibliography. Cinderella is already in the game as a designation rather than a name, and Grimm's notebook files the case as the Cinderellas, plural. How Ashley became Cinderella sets out that evidence. The other four tales on the sheet have no confirmed character yet. The Little Mermaid's line through it is the most interesting mark on the page. Someone considered her and cut her, or crossed her off because her story is already finished.

The note is written in the future tense. "Ensure", "from coming to pass", "will inherit". Whoever keeps this journal is not recording events. They are arranging them, and worrying about a butterfly effect if one piece moves. That is the voice of an author, and it gives "the Fairy Tale Incident" in the pitch a much darker read. Somebody in Silvernia is writing fairy tales and then making them happen.

"Monster Boss": the line under Cinderella's name

At 9:31 of the Gameplay Showcase, the Cinderella fight opens on a boss card. Her name is in Chinese, 灰姑娘, in quotation marks, and under it is a single line of script. Marloncha reads it as "Monster Boss".

Cinderella's boss card. Official Gameplay Showcase footage, annotation by Marloncha.

Marloncha's first question was whether this means Cinderella is a monster. Probably not in the story sense. A line like this is the kind of label a development build uses to sort its encounters, and "Monster Boss" is likely a category next to others the footage never shows.

The quotation marks around the name matter more. The game keeps treating Cinderella as a designation. Her character card ends "Thus known as: 'Cinderella'", and the case is filed as the Cinderellas. A boss card that puts the name in quotes is consistent with that from the very first showing.

This is a 2025 fight, and it has changed since. The Cinderella boss fight guide covers the current version, the Anime Expo rework covers what changed, and the boss list has her alongside the rest. For the character behind the card, see Ashley: who is she, really?

The Wolf King's Genealogy

After the werewolf fight in the Gameplay Showcase, the game opens a screen headed in script. Marloncha describes it as a "Genealogy" channel showing the descendants of the Wolf King, with the individual entries written in more gibberish.

The Genealogy screen. Official Gameplay Showcase footage, annotation by Marloncha.

Look at the heading closely and it does not say "Genealogy". It says "Geenealogy", with the E glyph written twice. That is a typo in the game's own script, and it is the best evidence on this page that the lettering was set by a person typing English, not generated as random texture.

The Wolf King is a named boss. His repeatable encounter, Wolf King's Hunt, sits at Felix on Morgue Street in the High Peers, and its card describes a hunting ground where "the law of the jungle rules over all" (boss story guide). A genealogy screen gives him something the card does not: a bloodline. It suggests the werewolves you fight are a family with a patriarch, not a scattering of individual Metal-Blooded. Silvernia already has one other family tree worth reading, and it belongs to the royal line.

Silvernia's newspapers, read at last

The newspapers carry the most script of anything in the footage, in the worst conditions: blurred, angled and moving. The Silvernia Observer articles the game hands you as documents are transcribed in full in the Silvernia Archive. Everything below is the press you can only see in a frame.

The Silvernia Observer front page

A clean front page of the Observer, masthead and all, with five headlines in the script:

• "S.T.A.T.S. reopens its doors"
• "Welcome to the Gourmet Market"
• "Toroid Spine Trade Fair"
• "The city's silver lifeblood"
• "Beware the threats around you"

The Silvernia Observer front page. Official footage, annotation by Marloncha.

Every one of these connects to something already on the site. S.T.A.T.S. is the detective agency on Morgue Street, and "reopens" is the right verb. After the Evermore the surviving detective walked away from the city, and the story begins with the return. The Gourmet Market is a named location in the in-game notices, and the food and drink guide covers what it sells. The Toroid Spine Trade Fair is where Ashley watches the Silverium parade bloom over the great reactor, and the Archive carries the fair's own poster text. "The city's silver lifeblood" is Silverium, and "beware the threats around you" is the River Constabulary's whole problem.

The trailer paper: a new factory for the West Side

In the car scene at 1:37 of the trailer, a passenger holds a newspaper up to the window. Marloncha's reading of the front page is:

• "West Side thrives, new factory brings employment to loyal community"
• "Local business flourishes"
• "New factory brings jobs to West Side"

The trailer newspaper, front page. Official trailer footage, annotation by Marloncha.

This was one of the hardest pages in the footage. The scene is fast and out of focus, and no single frame shows the whole page. "Factory" rests on an F and a y, and "Community" on a Co and a y. He settled each word by measuring letter heights across frames and testing candidates against the space. "Communally" was the closest rival to "Community", but it is a little too long and does not fit the sentence.

The back page was harder still. "Found" is the only clear word. Of the next one only "-doned" survives, and Marloncha listed every English word that fits: Querdoned, Abandoned, Unpardoned, Uncondoned, Unguerdoned, Unabandoned, Requerdoned, Reabandoned. The ruined building in the photograph above the text settles it as "Abandoned". The last word shows "tory" and part of a c, which leaves "factory". His reading of the back page is "...found an abandoned factory". The same paper is on screen at 0:07 of the trailer, and he thinks a sharper copy of that shot would give up the rest of the sentence.

Put the two sides together and you have the whole Cinderella case in one sheet of newsprint. The front page cheers a new factory and the jobs it brings to a loyal community. The back page finds an abandoned one. In the beta story the rot sits in a factory: Vorsch's United Vermentum Works, a UMI factory, and the women who survived it are the Cinderellas, their aprons stamped with the same number. The story recap has the factory floor, the Gravelkin post covers who does the work at the city's edge, and How Ashley became Cinderella has the aprons.

"Brotherhood of Evil"

At 4:21 of the Gameplay Showcase, another Observer is pinned to a wall. The headline reads "Brotherhood of Evil", and the column under the photograph reads: "Shadows deepen: evidence mounts of a 'brotherhood of evil' operating in the nation's underbelly!"

The Brotherhood of Evil page. Official Gameplay Showcase footage, annotation by Marloncha.

Ñe, another member of the thread, spotted what "shadows deepen" might be doing. In Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow (1895), Cassilda's Song runs "the shadows lengthen / In Carcosa". Ñe's idea is that the line went from English into Chinese and back again, and "lengthen" came out as "deepen". Marloncha agreed it was possible. It is unproven, but it is not a stretch for this game. Every Epiphany is named after a real published work, and three of them come from Poe and Doyle (all 30 literary sources). A secret brotherhood in the nation's underbelly also sits comfortably beside the theory that Grimm investigated a cult tied to U.M.I.

The Times, and a Poe line with a typo

An early key visual carries a newspaper masthead that reads "The Times". Among the small print is a line Marloncha reads as "While I powdered, weak and weary".

The Times key visual. Official key art, annotation by Marloncha.

That is the opening line of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary", with "pondered" turned into "powdered". Whether that is a joke or a slip, it is the second Poe reference in the game's text, next to the Epiphany that renames The Fall of the House of Usher as The Fall of the House of Rot. It is also a poem that opens "Once upon a". So does the journal.

U.M.I. is everywhere

Marloncha's own summary, after the billboards kept piling up: "U.M.I is everywhere. It must be a multinational business that can produce anything they want." Three frames make the case.

The first is a sign that spells out the letters U.M.I. with a line of script beneath them, which reads "United Mining Industry".

U.M.I., spelled out. Official footage, annotation by Marloncha.

The second is a billboard at 0:26 of the trailer, which Sierriea found in the thread. It reads "UMI Precision Series", "Antiques" and, in the largest letters, "Silver Sonic Time Traveller". Sierriea's question was whether it was a scam shop or real time travel. Marloncha thought it might be an art gallery. He could not identify the logo on the left, and the closest thing he could name was a gramophone with an exaggerated horn.

The Silver Sonic Time Traveller billboard. Official trailer footage, annotation by Marloncha.

A "Silver Sonic" product with a gramophone logo that "travels in time" reads well as a recording machine, something that plays the past back to you. That fits a game whose detective reconstructs what happened from what was left behind. It is only a reading.

The third is a signpost headed "UMI Corporation", with arms pointing to Dayfair Way and a thoroughfare. Dayfair Way is the old quarter, left behind when Silvernia modernised, which makes it an odd place for a corporate signpost.

The UMI Corporation signpost. Official footage, annotation by Marloncha.

Note that the footage names the company two ways, as the Industry on one sign and the Corporation on another. What the site already knows makes Marloncha's hunch look right. The in-game description calls UMI "a major corporation in Silvernia, run by people outside the old aristocracy". It built the Evermore. It funds the River Constabulary. The Stocks that property investment runs on are issued under its name (property investment guide). And the Grimm symbol theory puts a U.M.I. tag on a journalist's coat. The script adds shop signs, luxury goods and street furniture to that list. The UMI faction guide has the rest.

The street labels on the Morgue Street map

The Gameplay Showcase map is covered in script labels. Marloncha read "Morgue Street" three times. The rest come out as strings like "EASAC GTERGV", "YTNEASA YSSRT", "TEAS-GE-UTYE", "GTEDRGV PTY GHF GT" and "SOL VER FRY".

The Morgue Street map. Official Gameplay Showcase footage, annotation by Marloncha.

Those are not names. They are the script used as texture, and there is no point inventing meanings for them. "Morgue Street" is the one real label, repeated along the road it names.

The Chinese labels on the same map are readable, and they carry the real geography. 莫戈街区 is the Morgue Street district, 四冠街区 is Four Crowns and 白日大道主区 is the main Dayfair Way district. At the top sits 数探事务所, a detective agency, in the spot where S.T.A.T.S. stands. The Morgue Street guide covers its landmarks, the districts guide has the whole city, and City Errands are filed under the same three streets.

The Officer's Handbook poster

A framed poster from a later build, fully decoded:

Always carry your Officer's Handbook.

The Officer's Handbook outlines the primary duties of officers in various situations and serves as an important reference during police duty. If the Officer's Handbook is lost, it must be replaced at the officer's expense. Intentional damage to the manual will be treated as a disciplinary violation.

The Officer's Handbook poster. Official footage, translation by Marloncha.

It is a small poster, and it says a lot about the River Constabulary. The force's own description has it working out of an old office the Navy vacated, funded by the United Mining Industry and short of authority. A police force that makes officers pay for a lost rulebook is short of money too. The Archive's Notice of Appointment is the document that put Rex in charge of them.

The Science of All Things and The Art of Survival

Two promotional pages are printed entirely in the script. The first is headed "The Science of All Things" and splits the detective's work into three verbs: Observe, Deduce and Invest. The second is "The Art of Survival": Tactical Assault, Parry and Execute.

The Science of All Things. Official promotional art, annotation by Marloncha.

The Art of Survival. Official promotional art, annotation by Marloncha.

"The Science of All Things" is not only a slogan. It is also the name of the book the game makes you grind. Secret Science of All Things books are the character level-up material that Thought Experiment pays out. Observe and Deduce are the investigation and deduction loop. Invest is the one that surprises people, and the screenshot beside it shows a balance of 226,830 over a building, which is property investment. The Art of Survival page is the combat guide in three words.

The Tapestry of Time, a romance in four acts

A theatre banner hangs over the street at 8:02 and 8:42 of the Gameplay Showcase. It advertises "The Tapestry of Time", a romantic drama in four acts, with "Love's threads, woven through..." curving under the painting.

The Tapestry of Time banner. Official Gameplay Showcase footage, annotation by Marloncha.

The synopsis at the bottom defeated Marloncha, and his account of why is a good lesson in how hard this work is. The right-hand column is nearly done, except for a third row hidden behind a metal bar and one word in the fourth. The left-hand column curves with the fabric, and the camera never gets close. In the forced-interrogation scene a flash crosses the middle of the text. In the later fight the detective passes the banner mid-attack, at bad angles. The trailer shows the banner too, at 0:30, but too far away to read.

Nothing ties the play to the plot yet. It is here because it is the most legible poster in the footage, and because Silvernia clearly has a stage culture. The Archive's Queen's Arts Festival notice runs a costume theatre event, and the Red Rose is a performer.

Smaller finds from the thread

Marloncha posted more than the frames on this page. These are the finds without an image here, with the timestamps he gave.

• A Spanish food advert. DistressedBrain made the first pass, as "Freshly made, on point and intense taste". Marloncha refined it to "Freshly made / warmed to the point / and an intense flavour". On 25 May the product was confirmed as pizza. Silvernia's actual pizzeria is in the food and drink guide.
• A salmon advert. He decoded it on 19 May and then found the stock photograph it was built from, which he identified as an adult male Atlantic salmon.
• An Italian estate agent's board, at 6:31. It is mostly unreadable in the middle and in the bottom two lines. He looked for a real Italian firm to match it and found none. Silvernia's own property market is in the property investment guide.
• A French advert, at 7:47. This is where the last letter, lowercase b, finally turned up.
• The horse menu. He read part of it on 19 May. The mount guide covers the horses themselves.
• Library books, at 0:26 and 0:53 of the Gameplay Showcase. One spine reads "The Shadows", and another reads "RIBOT", with an old car on the cover. Neither matches a real book he could find.
• Red Rose's script, at 7:01 of the Gameplay Showcase. See the Red Rose character page.
• A lettering that is not this script, at 1:01 of the trailer and 9:02 of the Gameplay Showcase. He first read it as "UEAFRAF", then noticed glyphs the script never uses. Anglo-Saxon futhorc runes came closest, but some letters still differed. It is the one sign in the footage written in a different system.
• A line repeated three times over the columns of the building behind the cat scene, at 4:54.

What stays unread

Not everything decodes into sense, and a page like this owes you the failures too.

Some of it is deliberately meaningless. Strings like "asfmhgeitem", "MSTVMJ" and "asdwefas" are not words. Marloncha's verdict: "It's just gibberish. I'm pretty sure the developers never thought someone would decipher it that fast." Most of the street labels on the map are the same.

Some of it is too blurred to recover. That includes the back of the trailer newspaper, the Tapestry of Time synopsis and the left page of the fairy-tale journal. Marloncha checked every frame and chose the word that fits the visible letters and the space. That is careful work, and it is still a best fit.

Some of it may be mistranslated at the source. The Carcosa line is the clearest case. Marloncha asked whether a native Chinese speaker could spot patterns in the English that come from Chinese grammar. Nobody in the thread took it up, and it is still the obvious next step.

All of this is in-development footage from 2025. Signs, posters and screens can change before release.

The fan-made Silver Palace font

On 25 May 2025 Marloncha released a font built from the letters he decoded. The file is called Silver_Palace_Script, a 29.6 KB TrueType file shared in the Silver Palace Discord. A fan news account on X later posted an install guide. His release notes, in short:

• It is fan-made and not official. It is not one of the game's fonts, and it is not connected to Elementa Games.
• It is free to use and modify, for personal or commercial work.
• It is set to Bold, because the glyphs are drawn with overlapping lines that break at a normal weight.
• Ligatures show the variant letter forms from the footage, plus a few of his own design. Type two single quotes followed by the letter to get one. They cover B, F, G, J, N, R, T, V, W and Z, lowercase a, r and w, and the lowercase numerals except 6 and 8.
• Kerning and ligatures may not display in every app. Characters outside a standard English keyboard fall back to another font.

Credits

Marloncha decoded the script, built the key and the font, and made every reading and annotated frame on this page unless it is credited below. The work was done in a thread in the Silver Palace Discord between 16 May and 3 June 2025, started by a member who goes by earth, and summarised on r/SilverPalaceGame.

• DistressedBrain made the first reading of the Spanish food advert.
• Ñe suggested the Carcosa reading of "shadows deepen".
• Sierriea found the UMI Silver Sonic billboard at 0:26 of the trailer.

The frames come from official Silver Palace material: the Golden Age of Detectives trailer, the Gameplay Showcase (both on the media page), later in-development footage and official promotional art. The translations are community readings, not official text.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Silvernia script?

It is the lettering on the signs, posters, newspapers and screens of Silvernia in Silver Palace. The name is unofficial; Elementa has not named it. It is a one-for-one substitution of the Latin alphabet, so every glyph stands for one English letter and the words underneath are ordinary English, with a few adverts in Spanish, Italian and French.

Is the Silver Palace script a real language?

No. It is an alphabet, not a language. There is no invented grammar or vocabulary underneath it. Decode the letters and you get English sentences, some of them with typos, and some of them deliberate gibberish used as set dressing.

Who deciphered the Silver Palace script?

Marloncha, a member of the Silver Palace Discord, working frame by frame from the Golden Age of Detectives trailer and the Gameplay Showcase in May 2025. He had every capital and all but four lowercase letters by 16 May, and the last one, a lowercase b, turned up in a French advert on 25 May.

Is there a Silver Palace font?

There is a fan-made one. Marloncha built Silver_Palace_Script from the letters he decoded and released it on 25 May 2025, free for personal and commercial use. It is not an official Elementa font. It is set to Bold by default because of overlapping lines, and its ligatures are typed as two single quotes followed by the letter.

What does UMI stand for in Silver Palace?

The United Mining Industry. One decoded sign spells it out under the letters U.M.I., and a signpost in the footage calls it the UMI Corporation instead. It is the corporation behind the Evermore airship, the funder of the River Constabulary and the issuer of the Stocks used in property investment.

What does 'Monster Boss' under Cinderella's name mean?

It is a line of script beneath Cinderella's name on the boss card in the 2025 Gameplay Showcase. It most likely labels the type of encounter, the way a development build tags its content, rather than revealing anything about the story. The Cinderella fight has since been reworked.