![]() ![]() Note that these are free for non-commercial use only. But by far the best for people working with runic inscriptions who need many variations of different runeforms, the best that I have managed to find are Gullhornet (for Elder Futhark) and Gullskoen (for Younger Futhark), both designed by Odd Einar Haugen of the University of Bergen. There are a lot of these fonts available for free download. Something which works completely differently but with similar results is a font that uses the same characters as regular Latin script, but the font makes them look like runes. On my Linux computer everything works automatically with everything forever. For me, on a Windows computer, it works in FireFox without changing anything, but for Chrome I had to use the Advanced Font Settings extension, which lets you set different default fonts for different scripts. Having trouble reading that, even though you have a Runic Unicode Block-friendly font installed? You may need to tweak your browser settings. There is a great vaguely-Nordic-stylized freeware font by Joël Carrouché called Norse, which has really cool-looking entries for the Runic Unicode Block. ![]() Some fonts with entries for the Runic Unicode block include FreeMono, Segoe UI Symbol (a default font on Windows computers), Junicode, Everson Mono, Code2000, and others. Alternatively you could use your computer’s Character Map or equivalent. ![]() By default, you won’t be able to type them with your keyboard, but there are programs that let you program a keyboard layout yourself (Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator for Windows, I’m not sure what the Mac equivalent is but I’m sure there is one it’s very easy to straight-up code one on many Linux distros and if any Linux users want I can post the layout I wrote). One of the blocks on this table is sectioned off purely for runes.īecause most people don’t use this Unicode block very often most fonts just have blank spaces there. This applies to the text you’re reading right now, but there are also huge amounts of characters that you don’t use often and might even never use. Your computer stores a huge table of letters and other characters, all of which are assigned a number, and when text calls for that number, your computer searches for the symbol in the corresponding place in the font that’s being used. ![]()
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