Runic Font: The Elder Futhark

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If you've ever poked around the internet looking for a runic font for your computer, you may have incurred the same disappointment I did: the good fonts are not free, and the free fonts are not very good. Some are just badly rendered or poorly aligned. Others have odd assortments of characters that omit some runes or render them in bizarre ways.

I have decided to remedy this situation by creating my own runic TrueType font and making it available for downloading here. It is nothing elaborate: just the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, rendered accurately and simply, so that they can be applied to a number of different uses.

Download the Elder Futhark font. (To install, move it into the Windows font folder.)

Keyboard mapping:

feoh

F

uruz

U

thurisaz

X

ansuz

A

raidho

R

kenaz

C, K

gebo

G

wunjo

W

hagalaz

H

naudhiz

N

isa

I

jera

J

eihwaz

Y

perthro

P

algiz

Z

sowilo

S

tiwaz

T

berkano

B

ehwaz

E

manaz

M

laguz

L

ingwaz

Q

dagaz

D

othala

O

single dot

,

double dot

;

triple dot

.

The lowercase letters map to the same runes as the corresponding capitals.

Note: this font does include kerning information to make character spacing more esthetic in running text. The kerning pairs are only defined for the capitals, so if you wish to use the kerning, the simplest way is to type with caps lock on. Note that not all application support font kerning. In Microsoft Word, you need to turn kerning on in the Font Dialog, through the character spacing tab.

Enjoy the font!

Rune Lore is a regular feature of Starweaver's Gems from Earth and Sky